Taryn Bird

Taryn joined the Business Civic Leadership Center in January 2008 and is an issue network manager focused on global economic empowerment issues, specifically women's economic empowerment. She manages a network of more than 50 leading companies that are interested in advancing the connection between international development and corporate social responsibility. To shape the programming associated with the Global Corporate Citizenship program, Taryn works closely with co-chairs Bo Miller, The Dow Chemical Company, and Kathy Pickus, Abbott, as well as Chamber BCLC Business Corps Chairman Stewart Alvarez, Amadeus and the entire corporate working group. Taryn has led and created several new business initiatives in the international development space, including a post-earthquake corporate mission to Haiti in 2010, a pilot project in Brazil to launch the Business Corps, and numerous issue forums and conferences, including the annual partnership event with the United Nations Office for Partnerships on International Women’s Day. In the Spring of 2012 Taryn took a fellowship with Indego Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. She was responsible for managing the supply chain of the social enterprise’s women run cooperatives and managing the product of brand accounts in country. Recently The Center for International Private Enterprise selected Taryn as one of the top 20 Women to follow on Twitter and in 2010 Taryn was selected as a United States Delegate for the inaugural One Young World Conference. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Social Enterprise from the School of International Service at The American University in Washington, DC. Prior to joining BCLC, Taryn served with the U.S. Chamber-affiliated Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America. Taryn has two bachelor degrees from Penn State University in economics and Spanish. She is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.