About Us

Dr. Tanya Davis Ennis is the owner of the Ennis Consulting and Research Group, LLC. Dr. Ennis consults on a variety of topics including engineering education, STEM education, diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, to name a few. Additionally, Dr. Ennis conducts both quantitative and qualitative research and is an expert in the Qualitative Comparative Analysis research method. She is also a trained Qualified Administrator for the Intercultural Development Inventory, a tool that assesses intercultural competence.

As an engineer, Dr. Ennis worked in the telecommunications industry for 13 years developing large data transport systems, managing projects, developing business cases, deploying Operations Support Systems and projects and working as a system engineer.

As an educator, Dr. Ennis taught at the University of Colorado Boulder including introductory physics, engineering projects design and leadership and self-management principles to first-year engineering students. She also directed the Engineering GoldShirt Program and the BOLD Center in the College of Engineering and Applied Science where she designed and implemented programs to elevate underrepresented and underestimated engineering students. In 2015, CU President Benson awarded her the CU Systemwide Diversity Award for her outstanding work.

For 8 years, she also developed high school mathematics curriculum and taught at the Denver School of Science and Technology and Challenges, Choices and Images Charter School.

Dr. Ennis earned her PhD in Learning Science and Human Development at the University of Colorado Boulder’s School of Education where the faculty awarded her the Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled “Yearning to Learn: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Black Engineering Students Deciding to Stay or Leave Engineering Majors.” She earned her bachelors of science in Electrical engineering from Southern University, a Historical Black College and University, and her masters degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California.

Currently as the Broadening Participation Director for the National SpectrumX Center and the Research Support Office at the College of Engineering, Dr. Ennis directs efforts to educate and develop research proposals with researchers to impact society through research. Also, she recruits and develops the workforce in a variety of fields.