Current source roster
Tulsa chief resilience officer
Chief resilience officer
2025–present
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
People / Government & civic life
Dion’trae Hayes
Tulsa chief resilience officer
A former Michigan township supervisor and Tulsa nonprofit executive now leading the city’s resilience and equity department.
Dion’trae Hayes is Tulsa’s chief resilience officer. Mayor Monroe Nichols selected her in February 2025 to succeed Krystal Reyes, who became deputy mayor. The city announced a March 24 start and a reporting line to the deputy mayor; its current management roster confirms Hayes holds the job. Her career links local government in Michigan, Met Cares Foundation and a city department whose work spans economic security, language access, community engagement and human rights.
Education and Michigan public service
A historical biography from the Center for Health and Research Transformation identifies Hayes as a Michigan State University graduate with a master’s degree in public management from Central Michigan University. It describes her earlier work as legislative director for Michigan senator Coleman A. Young II and as a Lansing Charter Township trustee. Graduation dates are not established by that source. A University of Michigan account of the 2016 policy-fellowship class identifies her as interim township supervisor. City Pulse later reported that she resigned as supervisor on March 15,2022 to take an Oklahoma nonprofit position. Its report placed the departure amid township financial pressures; it did not establish personal wrongdoing by Hayes or prove that those pressures caused her departure.
Career & public service
- 2016
Interim township supervisor
University of Michigan identifies Hayes in its policy-fellowship cohort.
- 2018–2019
Utility advisory service
Non-voting township representative to Lansing Board of Water & Light.
- 2021
Hospital board appointment
Named to Sparrow Specialty Hospital board.
- March 15,2022
Left township office
City Pulse reports resignation before an Oklahoma nonprofit job.
- April 2022
Met Cares executive director
Arrival reported by KJRH during the subsequent school-management transition.
- November 2024
Growing Greenwood presentation
Presented housing recommendations to the Beyond Apology Commission.
- February 2025
City appointment announced
Selected as chief resilience officer, with a March 24 start scheduled.
- September 2025
Department priorities presented
Briefed the Human Rights Commission on resilience and equity work.
People, institutions and the relationships between them
Following the connections
Each step below represents a documented relationship. Dates and roles belong to the individual links; a path can span different periods.
personDion'trae Hayes
city departmentCity of Tulsa Department of Resilience and Equity
An appointed department leader within the mayor’s administration.
personDion'trae Hayes
nonprofitMet Cares Foundation
commissionBeyond Apology Commission
Historical employment and a documented 2024 presentation, not control of the commission.
personDion'trae Hayes
public utilityLansing Board of Water & Light
The 2018–19 seat was explicitly non-voting.
Documented relationships
8 documented relationships · Historical and current roles remain distinct.
Current source roster
City of Tulsa Department of Resilience and Equity
Leads department
Current roster
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Met Cares Foundation
Executive director
April 2022–before city appointment 2025
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
$116,294 · Calendar 2024 reportable compensation; Form 990 PartVII p 7 columnD, FY July 1,2024–June 30,2025, filedJanuary 28,2026. Not Tulsa salary. Related-organization and other compensation columns report zero.
Historical record
Lansing Charter Township
Interim supervisor, later supervisor
Documented 2016–resigned March 15,2022
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Lansing Board of Water & Light
Township representative
July 1,2018–June 30,2019
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Capital Area Transportation Authority (Michigan)
Board member
January 2018 snapshot
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Sparrow Specialty Hospital
Board appointment
2021
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
Historical record
Met Cares Foundation
Growing Greenwood presentation by Hayes · Beyond Apology Commission
November 8,2024
Historical source establishes the stated role only; no ownership or institutional control inferred.
Language access and the public complaint process
Hayes’s September 2025 commission presentation described work on translating vital public-facing city documents and language access. The same meeting recorded plans for Hayes and colleagues to work with IT on electronic human-rights complaints. The commission’s year-end report describes discussions involving online submission, electronic signatures and complaint tracking, alongside a contemplated ordinance change. Those records document work underway, rather than a verified launch of a completed system. They also show the limits of administrative initiative: technology, commission procedures and legislative changes can follow separate decision paths.
Public utilities, transit and a specialty hospital
The Lansing Board of Water & Light’s former-member roster records Hayes as Lansing Charter Township’s non-voting advisory representative from July 1,2018 through June 30,2019. The distinction is consequential: an advisory seat did not give her a voting commissioner’s authority. Capital Area Transportation Authority minutes separately list her as a board member in January 2018. These records place her in regional utility and transit governance, while establishing different kinds of participation. In 2021, Sparrow announced her appointment to the board of Sparrow Specialty Hospital. That was a specific hospital board, not an appointment to govern the entire Sparrow health system. These are historical affiliations; the records do not establish continuing service after her move to Tulsa.
Met Cares and the school-management transition
KJRH reported that Hayes joined Met Cares Foundation as executive director in April 2022. Within months, the foundation’s loss of federal tax-exempt status prompted Tulsa Public Schools to take over Greenwood Leadership Academy’s operations for the 2022–23 school year. The school had been a partnership between the district and foundation. Hayes told the station the organization was working with counsel and putting processes in place. The relevant filing failures preceded her reported arrival, so the timing does not support attributing them personally to her. The foundation said outside counsel believed two transposed identification-number digits explained why earlier returns had not been recognized. That is the organization’s explanation, not a finding independently established by the IRS letter.
The documented tax-status outcome
The foundation’s published IRS determination is dated August 4,2022. It approves reinstatement under Revenue Procedure 2014-11 retroactive to the date of revocation, listing November 15,2021 as the effective exemption date. The letter establishes the tax-status outcome. It does not establish that the school-management transfer was reversed, resolve every compliance question, or evaluate Hayes’s personal performance. Reading the original letter matters because the foundation’s webpage retains older language saying review was pending alongside its later reinstatement update.
Homeownership advocacy before city employment
In November 2024, Hayes presented Met Cares’ Growing Greenwood work to the Beyond Apology Commission. The minutes describe recommendations addressing barriers to homeownership: more downpayment assistance, partnerships with banks, lender education and changes to geographical or income restrictions. These were recommendations presented to a public commission. The minutes do not establish that the city enacted them or that any proposed funding was paid. This connection helps explain the institutional setting of her later resilience work: she had already brought a nonprofit’s housing agenda into a municipal advisory forum. It does not make the nonprofit, commission and city department interchangeable.
What the nonprofit return actually reports
Met Cares’ 2024 Form 990, covering July 1,2024 through June 30,2025 and filed January 28,2026, lists Hayes as executive director in PartVII. ColumnD reports $116,294 in reportable compensation; columnsE andF report zero related-organization and other compensation. Under that schedule’s reporting basis, the figure concerns calendar 2024 compensation. It is neither her Tulsa city salary nor total earnings for fiscal 2025. The return lists 40 average weekly hours. It was signed by a different executive director, Venita Cooper, and the historical Hayes row should not be read as evidence that she still ran Met Cares when the form was filed. This is the latest return located in the reviewed index; its amended-return box is not checked.
Other documented Tulsa connections
The city’s appointment announcement described Hayes’s work on a community-health advisory board’s healthy and affordable housing focus and a city financial-empowerment planning committee. It also identified 2025 service on a Tulsa Area United Way community-investment panel and volunteer review of Community Development Block Grant proposals. Those are dated affiliations, not verified continuing 2026 terms or proof she controlled grant awards. The city’s Children’s Cabinet roster separately lists her as the resilience and equity representative, connecting the department with the mayor’s work on children, youth and families. Cabinet membership is an interagency connection; it does not imply authority over the school district.
Interpretation
How the roles fit together
Hayes’s record shows movement between municipal administration, regional boards and nonprofit leadership. The strongest documented Tulsa connection is between Met Cares’ housing advocacy and her later responsibility for resilience and equity. That continuity helps explain her experience and institutional access. It does not establish that her former employer directs city policy or receives preferential treatment. Evaluating her current work requires following specific program decisions, budgets and implementation outcomes. The tax letter and nonprofit return illustrate the same discipline: dates and reporting bases materially change what an institutional record says about an individual.
Check the record
Sources & corrections
Research checked 2026-10-20. Roles and financial figures retain their source dates. Sections appear only when supported material is available; an omitted section is not a finding that no such relationship exists.
- City of Tulsa management team ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-20
Current roster identifies Hayes as Chief Resilience Officer.
- City announces Hayes as chief resilience officer ↗
primary · Source date 2025-02-27 · Checked 2026-10-20
February 27 announcement; scheduled March 24 start; reporting line; earlier employer and 2025 civic roles. Announcement is not independent proof of actual first day.
- Human Rights Commission minutes, September 15, 2025 ↗
primary · Source date 2025-09-15 · Checked 2026-10-20
PDF pp 1–2 department presentation; p 4 electronic complaint discussion. Proposed work distinguished from completed outcomes.
- Human Rights Commission 2025 year-end report ↗
primary · Source date 2025 · Checked 2026-10-20
Complaint-process work with Hayes, Carter and IT; ordinance change considered; not proof of deployment.
- Mayor’s Office of Children, Youth and Families ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-20
Children’s Cabinet roster identifies Hayes as resilience and equity representative.
- CHRT historical biography: Diontrae Hayes, MPA ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-20
Historical fellow biography: Michigan State undergraduate degree; Central Michigan public-management master’s; legislative director and township trustee; no graduation years. Direct download 403; web text read.
- University of Michigan: 2016 CHRT policy fellows ↗
primary · Source date 2016 · Checked 2026-10-20
2016 cohort identifies Hayes as Lansing Charter Township interim supervisor.
- City Pulse: Lansing Township tax-refund obligations ↗
independent-reporting · Source date 2022-04-14 · Checked 2026-10-20
Kyle Kaminski, April 14,2022: March 15 resignation and move to Oklahoma nonprofit; municipal financial context not personal misconduct finding.
- Lansing Board of Water & Light former advisory members ↗
primary · Source date 2026-01-01 · Checked 2026-10-20
Roster updated January 1,2026: Hayes represented Lansing Charter Township July 1,2018–June 30,2019; explicitly non-voting.
- CATA approved board minutes, January 17,2018 ↗
primary · Source date 2018-01-17 · Checked 2026-10-20
Attendance list identifies Hayes as a board member. Historical snapshot; no exact full term inferred.
- Sparrow adds community leaders to boards in 2021 ↗
primary · Source date 2021 · Checked 2026-10-20
Names Hayes to Sparrow Specialty Hospital board, distinct from health-system board.
- KJRH: TPS to operate Greenwood Leadership Academy ↗
independent-reporting · Source date 2022-07 · Checked 2026-10-20
July 2022 reporting: Hayes joined April 2022; TPS assumes 2022–23 operations following tax-exemption lapse; counsel explanation attributed.
- Met Cares explanation of tax status ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-20
Organization attributes missing recognized returns to transposed EIN digits; this is counsel’s explanation, not an IRS finding. Page retains old pending text alongside August 4 update.
- IRS reinstatement determination, Met Cares Foundation ↗
primary · Source date 2022-08-04 · Checked 2026-10-20
Original scanned letter dated August 4,2022, visually inspected: reinstatement under Revenue Procedure 2014-11 retroactive to revocation; effective exemption November 15,2021.
- Beyond Apology Commission minutes, November 8,2024 ↗
primary · Source date 2024-11-08 · Checked 2026-10-20
Hayes presentation on Growing Greenwood: downpayment assistance, bank partnerships and eligibility recommendations. Recommendations are not enacted programs.
- Met Cares Foundation 2024 Form 990 ↗
primary · Source date 2026-01-28 · Checked 2026-10-20
Original IRS e-file render. Tax year 2024, FY July 1,2024–June 30,2025; filed January 28,2026, amended box unchecked. PartVII p 7 Hayes row visually checked: 40 hours/week, D $116,294, E $0, F $0. D reports calendar 2024 W-2/1099 compensation, not city pay or FY 2025 earnings. Signed by successor Venita Cooper.
- Met Cares IRS return index ↗
primary · Checked 2026-10-20
Latest located FY 2025 return filedJanuary 28,2026; index warns amendments may not be reflected. Not exhaustive assurance of no later filing.