UW-Stout’s Outlook Alumni Magazine featured Tanya Ragan, President of Wildcat Management, in its Fall 2023 issue as part of a feature on alumni leading the way in entrepreneurship. Ragan appears on page 37, with the piece tracing her journey from Wisconsin to New York fashion, to Texas energy, and ultimately to leading one of downtown Dallas’s most distinctive development firms.
Key Highlights
- Featured in UW-Stout Outlook Alumni Magazine Fall 2023 issue, page 37, in the Leading the Way in Entrepreneurship feature
- Ragan is a UW-Stout graduate who went on to build a career spanning fashion, energy, and commercial real estate
- The feature highlights her founding and leadership of Wildcat Management, the only woman-owned commercial real estate development firm based in downtown Dallas
- Recognized for her work revitalizing historic districts including the Dallas Farmers Market District and the West End, and for restoring the landmark Purse Building
- Alumni magazine features reach UW-Stout’s network of graduates, faculty, and supporters across Wisconsin and beyond
Why This Feature Matters
Alumni magazine features connect a professional’s story back to the institution that shaped their early years. For Ragan, UW-Stout represents the beginning of a path that took her from a small Midwestern university to the front lines of urban real estate development in one of the country’s fastest-growing cities. Being featured as a leading entrepreneur in that publication closes a circle that started in Wisconsin and expanded far beyond it.
The Outlook feature also complements the news article published the same month by UW-Stout’s news center, which covered both Ragan and another alumni leader in entrepreneurship and higher education. Together they reflect a university that takes pride in tracking where its graduates go and what they build.
As Seen in UW-Stout Outlook Alumni Magazine
Founder and President of Wildcat Management, Tanya Ragan is a Dallas real estate developer, investor, and entrepreneur with twenty years developing some of North Texas’s most recognized neighborhoods. 2024 Texas Icon. Top 100 CRE Influencer. Co-author of Blaze Your Own Trail. She started in fashion, detoured through oil fields, built half of downtown Dallas, and has opinions about all three.