Jenny Tan
Director of Public Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations, City of Davis; Executive Committee Member, Hate-Free Together
2026
Jenny Tan is the Director of Public Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations for the City of Davis, where she leads communications, public affairs, and community engagement and serves as a key liaison to UC Davis, Yolo County, local schools, elected officials, nonprofits, and community partners. She has more than 15 years of experience in communications and public affairs and more than a decade in local government, with a career focused on building partnerships, navigating complex community issues, and making government more accessible and responsive.
Jenny has played a leading role in Hate-Free Together, a regional partnership that grew from the collaboration established among the City of Davis, UC Davis, and Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. Launched in 2022 in response to rising hate and discrimination, Hate-Free Together brings public agencies and community partners together to condemn hate, create safety, and cultivate change. The partnership now includes the Davis Joint Unified School District and Yolo County Office of Education.
As the City of Davis representative, Jenny has helped guide Hate-Free Together from its early development into a broader community initiative. She convenes and helps lead the Executive Committee, facilitates community meetings, builds consensus among partner agencies, works with community organizations, and has helped lead the initiative’s strategic planning and public engagement. She also spearheaded its public-facing presence, including development of HateFreeTogether.org, which received an Excellence in Public Information and Communication award from the California Association of Public Information Officials.
Her work builds on years of regional collaboration, including leading Yolo County’s communications during COVID-19 and its 2020 Census outreach, where she worked across cities, schools, nonprofits, health systems, and other community organizations. Jenny’s approach centers on a simple idea reflected in Hate-Free Together’s history: communities are stronger when institutions and residents work together rather than in isolation.
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
