Tiana is a clinical nutritionist, health systems leader, and fiber artist who has long been curious about nourishment, transformation, and the intelligence of the body. Her career in healthcare has included work at University of Washington Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente, and EvergreenHealth, where she focused on improving systems of care.

That inquiry has increasingly led Tiana toward somatic exploration, relational practice, and creative work with natural fibers, where she makes felt handbags and sculptural vessels. For her, these are not separate pursuits but different ways of paying attention—to form, to material, to the body, and to what is emerging. As Associate Producer of The Menopause Monologues, she brings both perspectives—the systems-level and the deeply embodied—to a cultural conversation about a transition that has too often been hidden, medicalized, or reduced to euphemism. She said yes to the project because she believes profoundly in women telling their stories, and in the shift that becomes possible when women learn from, lean on, and teach one another. She is especially drawn to the project’s ability to daylight sheltered ideas and inequities while making room for humor, curiosity, and the possibility of seeing menopause—and ourselves—reclaimed.