Taina McField

Education: BS in Government and Politics and Family Studies from University of Maryland at College Park

Recent projects include: Gates Foundation, United Way of Greater Cleveland

Personal interests include: cycling, reading, learning more about her Costa Rican and Honduran heritage

Taina McField is a senior advisor at PEG and is the Associate Dean for Strategy, Global Programs, and Entrepreneurship at Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life. 

Prior to joining the leadership team at Tisch, Taina led MIT's Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) as Interim Executive Director and Deputy Director prior, overseeing program development and fundraising, and working to ensure strategic alignment and execution across CoLab’s diverse projects throughout the Americas.

Prior to MIT, Taina was a Program Officer at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a philanthropic organization rooted in the Jewish tradition, where she focused on economic and racial justice and climate change. 

Taina is a native of the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, and an educator, by training, who brings extensive experience in program development and operations, cultivating and supporting social justice organizations, and working with large institutions, including universities.