meet the team dedicated to making your life shine
meet the team dedicated to making your life shine
Get a glimpse of the professionals who carefully craft and maintain our retirement lifestyle rich with opportunities to keep you growing and thriving.
Tamra Tsanos
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Meet Tamra, our extraordinary executive director with more than 13 years of dedicated experience in senior living. Tamra’s journey includes leadership roles in independent and assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities. Her passion lies in fostering lifelong connections with seniors and their loved ones, ensuring an unparalleled quality of life and adventure for all.
Tamra holds a master’s degree in public administration, specializing in health care, and a bachelor’s degree in health sciences. Beyond her professional endeavors, Tamra finds joy in hiking, exploring new destinations and cherishing precious moments with her family. Her commitment to enhancing the lives of our residents is the heartbeat of our community.
Karen Malekos Smith
DIRECTOR of sales and marketing
Karen is a passionate advocate for families and a dedicated educator about our services. With over three decades of experience in leadership roles working with seniors across nationally recognized communities, she brings invaluable insight to her role as director of sales and marketing. Prior to joining Valage Senior Living at Carson Valley, she served at Mills-Peninsula Health Services, excelling as the clinical manager of speech-language pathology and audiology, and later as the director of donor relations at Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation. Her background as a speech-language pathologist, combined with personal experiences with dementia and Parkinson’s disease, expertly prepared her to offer guidance, empathy and compassion to those navigating the transition to senior living.
