Meet Tesiah
Nurse Practitioner. Health equity strategist. Founder. Educator. Speaker.
Tesiah helps organizations design care that is evidence-based, equitable, and built to last—so patients, providers, and businesses can thrive.
Tesiah Mae Coleman, MSN, WHNP-BC, AGPCNP-BC, CLC is a dual board‑certified nurse practitioner and award‑winning clinical leader working at the intersection of women’s health, digital health, and health equity. She is the Co‑Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Kyndred, a digital‑first, race‑concordant care company built for and by Black women, and the Founder & CEO of Togather, the first CE‑accredited collective‑care platform for clinicians.
Her work bridges clinical excellence and systems design: building scalable models of care, training cross‑functional teams, and turning equity principles into measurable outcomes.
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What she does
Designs and scales equitable care models; builds clinician education that changes practice; advises healthcare and healthtech teams on clinical quality, safety, and workforce sustainability.
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Why it matters
Too many systems normalize harm. Tesiah helps teams operationalize justice—without sacrificing performance or clinical rigor.
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Where you’ve seen her
Ebony (2025 Changemaker), features in Forbes, Essence, and Elle; HLTH stages; The Pain Gap podcast; The Nursing Beat; CE‑accredited programs used by teams nationwide.
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Who she helps
Healthtech and healthcare orgs, public health departments, academic programs, and mission‑driven teams who want sustainable results.
“I’ve spent my career building the kind of healthcare I wish I had—the kind I know providers and patients deserve.”
Tesiah Mae Coleman, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, WHNP-BC, CLC, received her Master of Science in Nursing from the MGH Institute of Health Professions and is board certified in Adult-Gerontology Primary Care and Women’s Health.
Her career is rooted in the same commitment that brought her to the bedside: build the care we all deserve. Azorean Portuguese and Black American, she builds in honor of a family legacy shaped by inequitable systems. Her work is professional and deeply human—big smile, big earrings, and a bigger belief that care should feel like care. She splits time between Barcelona, Spain, and Berkeley, CA.
Over the past decade, Tesiah has led clinical strategy and education across startups and health systems, scaling virtual operations across multi-state markets, architecting quality frameworks, and equipping providers to deliver culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. She is a dually certified Women’s Health and Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner, a trained doula, and a Certified Lactation Counselor.
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As Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Kyndred, she reframes Black women’s health beyond “not dying” toward longevity and optimization. In a system that marginalizes Black women, her work centers them, repairs the toll of weathering, and adds years worth living. Kyndred’s patient-led model centers prevention and whole-person care across primary, reproductive, and mental health, delivered by culturally congruent providers.
Learn more about Kyndred.
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She is the Founder and CEO of Togather, the first CE-accredited collective-care platform for clinicians. Through Togather’s ALI™ (Anti-Racism, Liberation, Intersectionality) framework, she partners with organizations nationwide, reaching 12,000+ participants to strengthen retention, clinical quality, and equity, with partners across health tech and public health including Galileo and the New Jersey Department of Health.
Learn more about Togather.
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Previously at Tia, Tesiah directed clinical strategy and virtual operations during hyper-growth, expanding virtual care across four states, building leadership infrastructure, and co-launching maternity, psychiatry, and medication-abortion services with equity-aligned protocols and cleaner EHR data. At Violet, she transformed inclusive-care content into quality-driven, CME-accredited programming, creating CQEIs (Clinical Quality Education Interventions), instituting a measurement framework, redesigning the education taxonomy, and authoring 12+ CME collections that demonstrated measurable improvements in provider care quality.
She advises mygenderIQ and Kimbritive and serves on the Society for Women’s Health Research Clinical Advisory Board. Her voice appears across national outlets, including a column for The Nursing Beat, collectively reaching more than 60,000 readers.
Awards
2025 Ebony Changemaker Honoree for Leadership in Women’s Health
April 2025
National Health Service Corps Scholar
July 2016 – Jan 2021
John Hilton Knowles Fellow | MGH Institute of Health Professions
July 2016 – May 2019