Tami Pyfer is the Chief External Affairs Officer for UNITE- a national organization seeking to ease division across political and cultural differences. Tami is also the co-creator of the Dignity Index, an eight-point scale for measuring the dignity or contempt in the language we use with each other when we disagree. Tami leads the Dignity Index government, corporate, and state partnerships. Before her work with UNITE, Tami served for 7 years as the Education Policy Advisor to former Utah Governor Gary Herbert, where she was involved in state level policy development, coalition building, and stakeholder engagement. She held local and state elected offices for 12 years: 8 years on the Logan City Council and 4 years on the Utah State Board of Education. Tami’s professional training is in Special Education and before her appointment to serve on the Governor’s executive team, she taught at Utah State University, preparing teachers to work with students with disabilities. Tami and her husband Aaron are the parents of 5 children, grandparents of 16. They live in Salt Lake City, UT.