RHOA Star Tanya Sam Chats Diversity In Tech & Helping Young People Who Have Lost Their Parents

This week we spoke with new cast mem­ber of Real House­wives of Atlanta, Tanya Sam. (Click HERE to lis­ten to our full inter­view). You may think you only know her from watch­ing the hit real­i­ty TV series, how­ev­er, she is a woman of many tal­ents and her radi­ant per­son­al­i­ty can­not be over­looked! She start­ed off in the med­ical field as a nurse then start­ed to devel­op a pas­sion for tech­nol­o­gy. She shared with us, “Nurs­ing is real­ly sim­i­lar to the tech indus­try. Your days are jam packed, filled with adren­a­line and you don’t get to sleep a lot, so with that nurs­ing real­ly pre­pared me for entre­pre­neur­ship”.

Sam’s fiancé, Paul Judge, a More­house grad­u­ate is also a busi­ness man, so he played a huge role in coach­ing her and help­ing her learn how to run a suc­cess­ful busi­ness. With this, that’s how she decid­ed to start up Tech Square where she is the Direc­tor of Part­ner­ships. The idea behind this busi­ness is to see “how can we can help more peo­ple of col­or, more women, more minori­ties, more peo­ple in the greater Atlanta com­mu­ni­ty build suc­cess­ful tech­nol­o­gy busi­ness­es”, says Tanya. It doesn’t stop there, Tanya also played an impor­tant role in help­ing her fiancé in assist­ing with his cyber­se­cu­ri­ty busi­ness which also gave her a push to learn more and be hands on in the tech­nol­o­gy busi­ness. We love a cou­ple who can work hard and play hard togeth­er!

While Tanya is a very busy woman, her big heart and love for peo­ple con­tin­ues to show in her many endeav­ors. She serves on the Board of Direc­tors for the non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion Kate’s Club; an orga­ni­za­tion sup­port­ing chil­dren ages 4–18 who have lost a par­ent or a sib­ling. They have a club­house and a sum­mer pro­gram and through recre­ation­al, ther­a­peu­tic play and build­ing the com­mu­ni­ty. They help chil­dren get through some of their tougher times in life. Kate’s Club is based in Atlanta, but they are work­ing on expand­ing into more areas.

You can keep up with Tanya on her Insta­gram @itstanyatime.

Blogged By: Sier­ra Stafford