Tachrina Ahmed
Henry Street Settlement
Tachrina (Thas-reena) Ahmed
they/them/theirs
Tachrina Ahmed is currently the Director of College Access and Success at Expanded Horizons, Henry Street Settlement.
As a native from the Bronx, NY, Tachrina has extensive personal and professional experience working in schools that are unable to support lower-income, first generation students of color. They have also attained an M.Ed degree for Education Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University, to better redefine the inequitable ways college access in NYC has been stratified over the years.
As a Director at Expanded Horizons, Tachrina oversees the Access team, who serves high school students, and the Success team, who serves college students. Expanded Horizons at Henry Street Settlement provides the academic and post-secondary resources that Lower East Side youth would otherwise not have access to. In this position, they also build, manage, and facilitate curricula on social justice, social-emotional skills for young adults, and workforce readiness.
Prior to this role, Tachrina was a College Advisor at the YWCA - NYC and then at the Door - A Center For Alternatives. At the YWCA, Tachrina advised “non-traditional” high school students to be more college-ready. At the Door, they worked specifically with justice system-involved youth, including those who are in the shelter system or undocumented and working with an attorney. Tachrina combines social-emotional learning, anti-oppressive counseling, and social justice-based programming to support their youth.
Tachrina is passionate about equitable academic, cultural, and post-secondary access for young people and hopes to shift the ways educators and institutions can better implement such access.
