Tijanna O. Eaton

Tijanna O. Eaton (she/her) has served on the Board since April 2006 and was appointed Board President in April 2021. Tijanna worked at a popular Bay Area biotech for over 23 years. Prior to that, she worked as an orientation counselor/office assistant at the SISTER Program. Prior to that, she was a recidivist and a homeless drug addict who got clean in SISTERs and was the fifth woman sent to Walden House for long-term residential treatment. Tijanna has been drug and alcohol free since March 2, 1994 and still attends 12-step meetings, sponsors people, and does service.

Tijanna is authoring a book about her twelve arrests in three years in the early nineties called BOLT Cutters that chronicles her descent into heroin addiction, jail, prostitution, and homelessness and her ascent back to a more productive life. She has read excerpts at a number of Bay Area events and was featured on an episode of the Little Miss Addict podcast. Tijanna is a proud recipient of the Unicorn Authors Club's first Alumni Award.