Tambra Raye Stevenson is the founder and CEO of WANDA: Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics and Agriculture building a pipeline of a million women and girls to lead from farm to health through education, advocacy, and innovation. A true champion for nutrition and health equity, she has been recognized as the 2021 Science Defender by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a 2021 Changemaker by Clean Eating Magazine, 2020 Changemaker in the Food System by Washington City Paper, National Geographic Traveler, ASHOKA/RWJF’s Champion for Children’s Wellbeing and by the NAACP with the Wm. Montague Cobb Advocacy Award.

Appointed to the D.C. Food Policy Council, Tambra supported increased funding and access to healthy food along with nutrition and dietetics services for all to address the food apartheid. She was appointed by USDA Secretary Vilsack to the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board. She co-chairs the Nutrition Security working group with John Hancock Insurance for the Tufts Food and Nutrition Innovation Council. She also serves as the first North American representative for the African Nutrition Society. She has led high-level meetings at UN Commission on the Status for Women's NGO Forum, World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, African Union Mission, U.S. Library of Congress, and Smithsonian Museum. She is a James Beard Awards judge and board executive for Les Dames d'Escoffier International DC Chapter.

After Tufts, she began her public service career at the Secretary’s office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Commerce, D.C. Mayor’s office on women’s policy and victim services, and UDC’s Center for Nutrition, Diet, and Health. She earned an M.P.H. in Health Communication at Tufts University School of Medicine and a B.S. Human Nutrition and Spanish at Oklahoma State University. She is pursuing a Ph.D. at the American University School of Communication.