Assemblymember Tanya P. Flanagan

Party: Democratic

Legislative Service

  • Nevada Assembly, 2025 (first elected November 2024)—one regular session
  • 2025 SESSION COMMITTEES: Education; Government Affairs; Revenue

Other Public Service

  • After-School All-Stars Greater Las Vegas
  • Bolden Area Command Citizen Council
  • Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, African American Advisory Council
  • Las Vegas Urban Chamber of Commerce
  • Las Vegas Urban League
  • National Association of Black Journalists
  • National Urban League
  • Susan G. Komen Nevada

Honors and Awards

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Las Vegas, President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service
  • Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Community Service Award
  • Kappa League, Breast Cancer Awareness Survivor Adversity Overcomer Award
  • Nevada Press Association, First Place, Best Spot News Story
  • Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Community Citizen of the Year
  • SBI Youth Mentor, Certificate of Recognition
  • Who’s Who in Black Las Vegas, Honoree

Other Achievements

  • KUNV Radio Talk Show Host
  • Las Vegas Sentinel-Voice, Reporter/Editor
  • Victory Missionary Baptist Church, Television host, Christian Living Principles & Society
  • Top 40 Under 40 in Business Las Vegas, Nominee

Affiliations

  • Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Theta Theta Omega Chapter
  • West Las Vegas Arts Center, Performing & Visual Arts Summer Camp
  • The Girl Friends, Inc., Las Vegas Chapter

Education

  • University of Arizona, Journalism and Political Science, B.A., 1993
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Executive M.B.A., 2006

Personal

Occupation: Communications and Public Relations
Recreation: My black Lab, baking, reading, live music events, and spending time with family
Born: 1970, McNary, Arizona