Community Update: KAFASI’s Executive Director Ronald Tatum named as one of Gateway Technical College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award recipients
Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services, Inc (KAFASI) Executive Director, Ronald Tatum has been named as one of Gateway Technical College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award recipients for the year 2024.
From Gateway:
“Tatum is the executive director at Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services, Inc. Tatum created a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee to work on ways to ensure KAFASI always is a workplace which embraces those tenets. Staff members say that his goal for staff at the agency is that they are better able to reach out to marginalized members of the community and provide them with service they need.
“He is a patient, kind and knowledgeable teacher/boss who helps open the hearts and minds of those he oversees,” say his nominators. “He looks for opportunities to help us all embrace the differences and unique qualities we bring to our roles. He celebrates us when we succeed and guides us through rough patches. He believes in peaceful resolutions to conflicts, always with an eye on how to increase our cultural awareness and inclusion.
“He exemplifies the meaning of ‘servant leader’ and has taken KAFASI into a new direction of diversion, equity and inclusion.”“
