Tanya Hosch has spent much of her working life in Adelaide, South Australia.  Most of this time Tanya was employed in the State Public Sector across a broad range of service and policy organizations.  This included working in diversity policy and human resource management, women’s services, and Aboriginal employment programs.

Since then Tanya has worked in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Unit of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Sydney, for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in Canberra, and then with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in both Canberra and Adelaide.

During this time Tanya has also been actively involved in developing and delivering Leadership Programs for young Indigenous people and is a Board Director for the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre and the Foundation for Young Australians.  Tanya was a co-founder, former Trustee and inaugural Chairperson of the National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia.

Tanya also sits on the Boards of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, is Chair of the Women’s Health Ministerial Advisory Council in South Australia and is also a Board member of South Australia’s largest Regional Health Service.  Until recently Tanya also served on the Council’s of a State based and National sexual health related services and policy advice bodies.

Tanya has also worked for Reconciliation Australia on designing a process of consultation and research on alternative models for a National Indigenous Representative Model for Australia and on the establishment of the National Indigenous Money Management Agenda project concerned with improving financial literacy of Indigenous Australians. 

In addition, Tanya sits on the Rio Tinto Aboriginal Foundation, is a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Technology, Sydney and is a member of a newly formed 30 Something’s Indigenous Policy Think Tank run out of the University of Technology, Sydney named Ngiya.  Recently Tanya has accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors for International Funders of Indigenous Peoples based in North America.  Tanya currently operates as a consultant and works in a range of areas across Australia.

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