Tami Pyfer is the Chief of Staff and VP External 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. 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: eight years on the Logan City Council and four years on the Utah State Board of Education. Tami’s professional training is in Special Education. 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 and grandparents of 15. They live in South Jordan, Utah.