Tanja Kisslinger is the Director of Communications at Veterinarians Without Borders North America/Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Amérique du Nord.
Tanja is a senior communications leader and cross-cultural storyteller with more than 18 years of experience supporting global health, humanitarian, and international development initiatives. She has led communications, public engagement, brand and content management strategies for organizations including CARE, SOS Children's Villages, Save the Children, and Medair, working across diverse and often fragile contexts to connect local realities with global audiences.
Her work is grounded in ethical, community-centred storytelling that brings visibility to systemic inequities, humanitarian crises, and locally driven solutions. Over the course of her career, Tanja has lived and worked across Africa, Asia, and Europe, shaping narratives alongside communities affected by displacement, food insecurity, gender inequality, and health crises.
Most recently, Tanja led CARE Canada’s multi-year Feed Her Future public engagement campaign, which focused on the social and gender norms shaping nutrition and health outcomes for women and children in Southern Africa. At Veterinarians Without Borders, she leads strategic communications across international development, humanitarian response, and companion animal health programming—amplifying the organization’s One Health approach and strengthening engagement with partners, supporters, and volunteers.
Tanja holds a Master’s degree in Criminology, an Honours degree in Psychology, and professional certifications in cross-cultural and emergency communications.
As the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists unfolds, VWB explores why mobility is not a barrier to care — but a blueprint for designing resilient, equitable animal health systems in rangeland and remote communities.
Khadia Diallo’s story reveals how women Community Animal Health Workers in rural Senegal are strengthening disease prevention from the ground up — caring for animals, supporting families, and translating One Health principles into everyday practice through the COHERS program.
A community awareness event in rural Senegal offers a window into how local partners and Community Animal Health Workers are building a culture of prevention through dialogue, trust, and repeated engagement under the COHERS program.
