InterAction

Taina has served as the Program Manager for Membership and Standards at InterAction since 2007. She is responsible for strengthening membership relations and developing membership expansion and recruitment strategies. She is the lead staff person working with members on their compliance with InterAction's PVO Standards through InterAction's Self-Certification-Plus process. She also directs the work of InterAction’s Gifts-in-Kind Working Group and coordinates and manages the quarterly Membership and Standards Board Committee meetings. Every year, she manages and directs the sponsorship and exhibitor program for InterAction’s Annual Conference.

Taina is from Finland, multilingual and has a wide-ranging international experience in program management, coordination and administration having lived and worked over 20 years in developing countries in Latin America, East Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Prior to joining InterAction, Taina worked in Cairo, Egypt as a Program Manager at the non-profit Community Services Association, in Uganda as a Business and Communications Advisor for a local micro-finance organization, in Guatemala as the Project Administrator for a FINNIDA-funded Agro-Forestry project. In Nicaragua she performed multiple program and representation roles for the Finnish and Norwegian Embassies. In the United States, Taina worked for seven years at the United Nations in New York as a Public Information Officer and Conference Services Officer.

Taina has a BA from Uppsala University, Sweden and has completed graduate courses in International Relations at New York University. She also holds a Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate from Georgetown University’s Center for Public and Non Profit Leadership.