Tiffany Dempsey

Strategic partnerships and external affairs leader with 25+ years of experience across Fortune 50 technology, engineering and operations, higher education, nonprofit leadership, community engagement, and HBCU-centered partnership development. Builds cross-sector relationships that translate into programs, resources, institutional partnerships, and measurable impact. Combines multimillion-dollar program and operations leadership with deep experience in stakeholder engagement, resource development, culturally responsive strategy, and organizational transformation.

Director of Community Relations at KAIROSPDX LEARNING ACADEMY (2023-01 – Present)

Lead Community Relations strategy for a culturally responsive educational organization, building an external ecosystem of strategic partners, families, alumni, corporations, higher-education institutions, community organizations, funders, and cultural partners.

• Lead organizational strategy across strategic partnerships, family engagement, HBCU/Divine Nine engagement, alumni relations, community visibility, and resource-development opportunities.
• Reposition Community Relations from an activity- and event-focused function toward a portfolio-based partnership model emphasizing organizational value, partner stewardship, measurable outcomes, resource potential, and long-term sustainability.
• Develop and steward relationships with corporate, nonprofit, civic, higher-education, HBCU alumni, Divine Nine, philanthropic, and community partners to expand opportunities for students and families.
• Build partnership-management processes spanning identification, qualification, engagement, activation, measurement, stewardship, and renewal.
• Partner across executive leadership, school leadership, mental health, family engagement, and external stakeholders to align community resources with organizational priorities.
• Integrate Community Relations with development strategy by identifying sponsorship, grant, corporate-giving, in-kind, transportation, professional-service, and funder-introduction opportunities for executive and development cultivation.
• Lead KairosPDX HBCU and Divine Nine cultural-engagement strategy, connecting elementary students with HBCU alumni, Black Greek-letter organizations, higher-education institutions, and traditions that strengthen college-going identity and belonging.
• Lead strategic partnerships supporting the annual fifth-grade Washington, D.C. educational experience, serving approximately 20-25 students and incorporating the UNCF National Office, Howard University, and the University of the District of Columbia.
• Expanded alumni engagement through culturally responsive programming, including an April 2026 Cultural Preservation experience for 17 alumni in Atlanta, Georgia, and Montgomery, Alabama.
• Develop impact measures spanning active and new partners, partner retention, partner-generated opportunities, students served, cultural touchpoints, funding leads, sponsorship prospects, grant pipeline, in-kind value, and alumni participation.
• Represent KairosPDX externally with business, nonprofit, civic, education, philanthropic, HBCU, and community stakeholders.

HBCU Higher Education Program Manager at INTEL CORPORATION (2020-12 – 2021-09)

• Led strategy within Intel Global Diversity for a $1.4M portfolio spanning six HBCU universities and nonprofit partners.
• Developed strategic relationships with university faculty, administrators, community organizations, and Intel business groups.
• Established quarterly partner meetings and executive-facing reporting focused on metrics, performance, organizational needs, and business outcomes.
• Developed business RFPs and supported grant negotiations to expand faculty partnerships and help drive a 50% increase in enrollment.
• Connected corporate business priorities with higher-education partnerships designed to expand access, opportunity, and pathways into technology.

Product Ecology / Product Regulatory Engineer at INTEL CORPORATION (2017-10 – 2023-12)

• Led product-compliance processes supporting global technology products through evolving environmental and regulatory requirements.
• Developed procedures, training, auditing practices, and standardized methodologies to mature product-compliance programs.
• Partnered cross-functionally across engineering, operations, suppliers, and business teams to support compliant product launches.
• Conducted Bill of Material and material-declaration analysis involving international environmental standards and product-regulatory requirements, including REACH/SVHC and RoHS-related compliance.
• Applied root-cause analysis and process improvement to complex regulatory and product-lifecycle challenges.

Product Data Planner at INTEL CORPORATION (2009-04 – 2017-10)

• Served as primary cross-functional interface for Board and System Bills of Material and Engineering Change Order processes supporting complex technology products.
• Managed forecasting, scheduling, product structures, factory supply-line coordination, and parent/child product relationships across business units.
• Applied Lean and Agile methodologies to standardize business processes, eliminate non-value-added activity, and improve operational effectiveness.

Material Program Manager at INTEL CORPORATION (2007-09 – 2009-04)

• Led cross-functional material and product-design coordination with design engineers, commodity managers, suppliers, and manufacturing stakeholders.
• Managed component strategy across quality, cost, availability, risk, and production requirements.
• Served as the primary materials interface with global suppliers to protect build schedules and communicate high-risk supply issues.

Manufacturing Operations Manager at INTEL CORPORATION (2006-02 – 2007-09)

• Directed manufacturing operations supporting safety, quality, output, cost, workforce performance, and high-volume production.
• Led development and performance of shift teams while supporting manufacturing transfers and facility start-ups.
• Coached manufacturing teams and established tactical priorities to strengthen execution, operational performance, safety, and workforce engagement.

Commodity Specialist - Diffusion & Implant at INTEL CORPORATION

• Advised buyers on factory requirements for contracted vendor-engineering support and helped set commodity-level program cost targets.
• Served as a key interface between factory operations and procurement while supporting multiple successful factory start-ups.
• Managed vendor contracts and spare-parts procurement supporting a $15M functional area.

Automation System Configuration Engineer at INTEL CORPORATION

• Supported complex engineering and automation operations for a $300M manufacturing process.
• Developed Automation Operations Procedures and Problem Resolution Documents supporting product installation, manufacturing issue resolution, system maintenance, and training.

Lithography Module Technician III / Certified Shift Expert at INTEL CORPORATION

• Supported advanced semiconductor manufacturing through equipment and instrumentation troubleshooting, process development, and maintenance.
• Partnered with process engineers to develop procedures that improved manufacturability and process yields.
• Provided technical direction and training to peers, vendors, and new employees as a Certified Shift Expert.

Board Member at BUILDING BLOCKS 2 SUCCESS (Present)

• Provide governance and community leadership supporting STEM access, youth development, education, and opportunity.
• Bring technology, HBCU, community-partnership, and education perspectives to organizational strategy and youth opportunity-building.

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineer, Prairie View A&M University