Background
Tara serves as Director of Strategic Research with a focus on community colleges. She brings 14 years of experience working in, and alongside, community colleges to create better opportunities for all students, regardless of their starting point. Her work in higher education is deeply rooted in her own identity as a first generation, low income, transfer student who needed to work full time while
Education
Tara graduated magna cum laude from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Sociology. She went on to pursue a Master of Arts in Sociology & Gender Studies, and Doctorate of Education in Higher Education Leadership & Administration, both also from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation research focuses on how community college students navigate complexities in the admissions process.
