CTA welcomes new Associate Director
Call To Action is pleased to announce a transition in our staff. Former Development Director Dominic Surya has worn many hats with CTA, as a staff member, Re/Generator, chapter member, and Vision Council member. Our new Associate Director, Tamar Yager, has worn many of those same hats over the years. Please join us in welcoming Tamar to our staff and wishing Dominic well!
Welcoming Associate Director Tamar Yager
Contact Tamar: tamar@cta-usa.org
Tamar has a long history with CTA and social justice activism. Her former church (St. William) in Louisville, KY was a strong supporter of CTA in its early days. Tamar went in 1996 and was hooked from the start. She was so energized that she started a local chapter and began service on the board in 2001. In 1999 she met her husband-to-be, Tom Yager, in Chicago at a Next Generation Retreat. They married in Louisville in 2006 and Tamar moved to Virginia. She continued to serve on the CTA Board until 2015. Tamar lives in Front Royal and is very active in community activities including serving on the United Way Board and town committees. She attends Our Saviour Lutheran Church where she is on the church council, is a worship leader and is co-chair of the fellowship committee. In her free time she loves to watch Law and Order and any spin-offs, play with her two cats, and cook.
A message from Dominic Surya
With mixed emotions, I have stepped back from my CTA staff capacity to step into full-time capacity at another fundraising job I have, at a Black Chicago org where I am harder to replace.
I continue to serve as a Vision Council member. I am succeeded in my development staff capacity by long-time CTA super-star Tamar Yager. I'm grateful to Zach, Revalon, Claire, and Abby, for being such inspiring colleagues.
Looking forward in CTA: I believe that to be and to reform the Catholic Church, we must certainly focus more of our economic resources on anti-oppression and oppressed people; and I believe that we must moreover work to fundraise those resources. We must reckon with capitalism not only in our spending commitments, but in our commitment to raising the money we need to spend.
So thank you for your financial contributions to CTA. And whether or not you can pitch in money, please consider contributing to our fundraising efforts: Invite your community to give, e.g., invite friends to give now at cta-usa.org/donate! Or even join CTA's fund-development committee, which I still chair — no expertise needed; just email cta@cta-usa.org!
With love,
Dominic
