Harriet Gardner

Harriet Gardner is the Senior Director of Corporate & Strategic Initiatives at Tides. For more than 15 years, Harriet has worked in the nonprofit and corporate sectors and the UN system with a focus on building partnerships to advance equity, children's rights, global health, and education. Through strategic partnership and coalition-building, Harriet has spearheaded multimillion-dollar programs that leveraged corporate resources, technical expertise, and influence for disaster response, education, and health initiatives. At Tides – a non-profit philanthropic organization – Harriet leads the Corporate & Strategic Initiatives work, providing grantmaking, philanthropic advisory and strategy consultancy services for more than 70 companies. Prior to working at Tides, she served as VP of corporate partnerships at UNICEF USA, as a senior corporate specialist at Save the Children, and as head of partnerships at Catchafire. She received a B.A. in English language and literature from The University of Manchester.