Tamara Thompson serves as the Interim Chief Programs Officer for The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF). Tamara joined TMCF in March 2020 with a primary focus on driving programmatic activity including career readiness, scholarship support, and leadership development for students attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Since joining TMCF, Tamara has led strategic efforts focused on TMCF’s Corporate Partnerships spanning the technology, health care, education and consumer goods industry sectors, including Apple, Boeing, Hennessy, Medtronic, Mondelez and Novartis as well as the TMCF Teacher Quality and Retention Program supporting K-12 educators. Prior to joining TMCF, Tamara’s career involved leadership in the financial, marketing, and product strategy arenas. Her career began in corporate accounting within the financial services sector and later expanded to product marketing and strategy. Tamara has led strategy and marketing efforts for product portfolios with values near $1 Billion, including L’eggs Hosiery, Hanes Underwear, and Bali Intimate Apparel brands. Tamara has always had a keen sense and passion for career development and being a champion of diversity, equity and inclusion across organizations. She is now focused on being that champion for the next generation of industry leaders
Tamara is a graduate of Duke University where she earned a BA in Economics and a certificate in Marketing and Market studies. She also earned an MBA, with a concentration in Marketing, from the
Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, where she was a General Motors Scholar. Currently, Tamara resides in Winston-Salem, NC with her wonderful husband, Dwight and her two beautiful children, Victoria and Dwight Jr (DJ)..