{"id":15167,"date":"2026-06-02T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/?p=15167"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:08:32","slug":"staff-spotlight-lets-celebrate-tina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/es\/staff-spotlight-lets-celebrate-tina\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Spotlight: Let&#8217;s Celebrate Tina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Check out our Q&amp;A with Operations<\/em> <em>Director Tina Mahtani below<\/em>. <em>Congratulations on 1 year with Empower Missouri, Tina!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What part of Empower Missouri\u2019s work do you feel most passionate about, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I care about most is that Empower never loses sight of the people behind the issues we work on. The policy work matters, but what makes it meaningful to me is seeing how it connects back to people\u2019s actual lives and experiences. 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