Tanya Farrol is a founding member of SENIA and has been part of the organization since 2002. She has hosted SENIA conferences in Beijing where she lived for over 18 years. Since 2009, she has been on the SENIA Board organizing the Scholarships & Awards and part of the SENIA-Beijing Board as the external expertise list coordinator and organizing local conferences from 2009 – 2020.
Tanya received a Masters in Special Education while teaching overseas in England. As a special educator with 23+ years of experience in international schools, she has promoted inclusion and raised awareness of special education issues in the communities she has lived in – Haiti, Egypt, England, and China.
Currently, she is living and working at Nanjing International School where she continues to support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the community. You can typically find Tanya traveling around the world with her family, eating scrumptious food and cheering on her beloved Formula One team.