Tammy C. Yates-Rajaduray is the Executive Director of Realize, which hosts the Secretariat of the National Coordinating Committee on HIV and Aging, the National Community Advisory Group on Optimal Health and Well-being in HIV, the National Guiding Circle on HIV and Disability, as well as the National Episodic Disabilities Forum. In 2015, Yates-Rajaduray became the first black female Executive Director of a national organization in Canada’s HIV response, as well as among Canada’s national disability organizations. 

Yates-Rajaduray has worked for over seventeen years in the field of program management. Prior to joining Realize, she was the National Program Manager of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Trinidad & Tobago Branch Office. She has extensive experience in Gender & Development and Sexual & Reproductive Health, including HIV/AIDS, having worked previously as a Program Officer with the Secretariat of the Caribbean Regional Network of Persons Living With HIV (CRN+) and serving as Chair of the Gender Theme Group of the United Nations System in Trinidad & Tobago. 

Yates-Rajaduray is a graduate of Wolfson College, Cambridge University, England and the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.