From SJUSD Student to SJUSD President
Tanya Kravchuk serves as President of the San Juan Unified School District Board of Education, representing Trustee Area 5 — the communities of Fair Oaks, Orangevale, and Carmichael. She is running for re-election in 2026 to continue the work she began in 2022.
Born in Ukraine, Tanya came to the United States at the age of five. She attended elementary school in Sacramento City Unified before her family moved to Citrus Heights, where she went on to attend Sylvan and Mesa Verde in the San Juan district. She knows what it’s like to walk into a school as an outsider — navigating language barriers, cultural differences, and the kind of challenges that don’t show up in any policy manual. That experience has shaped who she is as a trustee and how she listens to families.
Tanya holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from California State University, Sacramento. Her career has taken her from marketing at Farmers Insurance and public affairs at Intel, to nearly a decade in the nonprofit sector — including roles as Resource Development Manager at PEACE for Families and Director of Development & Communications at The Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento, where she focused on the region’s most vulnerable children. She’s taught Sunday School for over 20 years, is actively involved in her church and co-produces an annual benefit concert for widows and orphans. She also partnered with schools and local governments during the 2020 Census.
Tanya is a joint owner of a residential construction and remodeling company, a board member of Kids Helping Kids Sacramento, and most importantly — a mom of four kids who attend and have attended San Juan Unified schools.
Since taking her seat on the board, Tanya has worked to make SJUSD more responsive, more accountable, and more worthy of the community’s trust. She helped transform the special education department, championed a districtwide cell phone policy, pushed for newcomer student support during the 2023–24 refugee enrollment surge, and cast votes grounded in what’s actually good for kids — not what’s politically convenient.
She’s asking for a second term to keep that work going.