Tina Gridiron serves as the Chief Equity & Impact Officer for ACT. In this role she leads ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning and she strives to build, enhance, and embed equity across the ACT enterprise. By strengthening and supporting ACT’s internal Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility efforts and building collaborations with external equity-focused leaders and organizations, Tina supports ACT’s broader efforts to close equity gaps in opportunity and outcomes in the education and workforce arenas.
Prior to joining ACT in 2019, Tina served as a consultant for 2 years supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts among several nonprofits and foundations and for 14 years Tina led grant initiatives focused on community colleges, students of color, and Minority Serving Institutions as an officer and director for Lumina Foundation.
Tina Gridiron has over 25 years of experience as a higher education professional and actively demonstrates a deep commitment to data-informed action, equity-informed research, and culturally responsive policy. Tina holds a Master of Arts in higher education administration and a Master of Arts in sociology, both from Stanford University, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. She currently lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
