Tanya Antoniw is the Executive Director of Employment and Social Services at the City of Windsor. Tanya started at the City of Windsor in 2017 as the Manager, Policy and Staff Development in the Employment and Social Services department. Prior to 2017, Tanya worked at Workforce WindsorEssex, starting as a Research and Trend Analysis Specialist and Director of Project Management before becoming the Executive Director of the organization in 2012.
Tanya holds a Combined Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and History from the University of Windsor. She also holds a Master's of Arts in Political Science at the University of Windsor and a Master of Public Policy with Distinction from the University of Michigan- Dearborn.
In 2011, while completing her MPP degree, Tanya was hired as a Research and Trend Analysis Specialist at the Workforce Development Board Windsor-Essex (Workforce WindsorEssex). Workforce WindsorEssex facilitates employment in the local region through research, partnerships and communication. In 2012, she was promoted to Director of Project Management, supervising eight projects aimed to disseminate qualitative and quantitative local labour market information and research to the Windsor-Essex community. In these positions, Tanya authored several reports highlighting the supply and demand sides of the labour market, including Promising Sectors and Occupations Windsor-Essex 2012-2015. In 2013, Tanya was appointed the Executive Director of Workforce WindsorEssex and is responsible for the leadership of the organization and working with many community partners to ensure that the workforce has the skills and training necessary to fill the jobs that local employers are offering.
In thinking about how her BA, MA, and MPP degrees have helped her get started on a career in policy research, Tanya says that she "would like to recognize and thank the faculty of both University of Windsor and University of Michigan at Dearborn for their knowledge and support. The faculty at both institutions are world-class and the knowledge, expertise and advice that they so generously passed along to their students, I still carry with me and apply on a daily basis. The research and communication skills I have developed in the programs are relevant and applicable. The programs also provided me with the opportunity to meet many different people at the student and faculty level, and that has developed into an extensive network which is extremely valuable in my work."