Dr. Reena Tandon

Dr. Reena Tandon is the Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching Coordinator at the Student Experience Centre in the Faculty of Arts where she collaborates with, supports and provides capacity building to faculty members, departments, partners, staff and students to enhance the educational experience and student learning outcomes. Dr. Tandon has served on university-wide committees and has been the lead team member and a facilitator at the Jack Layton School of Youth Leadership. She is a member of the Yates School of graduate studies and is affiliated with the Ryerson Centre for Immigration and Settlement at Ryerson. She serves on the National Steering Committee of the Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning and has served on the governance boards of Sherbourne Health Centre, South Asian Women’s Centre and the Mission Committee of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Dr. Tandon taught across universities in New Delhi and Toronto including at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University. She has worked in the capacity of Program Director in the community sector in Toronto and has worked as a consultant to organizations such as the UNFPA and the World Bank. Dr. Tandon was a Mellon PostDoctoral Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, and held a CIHR PostDoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Research in Inner City Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada. She received her Ph.D in Social Work and Social Policy from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, after completing her undergraduate and graduate education at Delhi University, India.