Tara is president of the nonprofit Perception International. She founded Perception International's nonprofit project Voices for Biodiversity to explore how human beings can shift their perceptions so as to learn to co-exist with other species and nature. In addition, she is an environmental and medical anthropologist who has worked as an international development consultant for UNICEF, the United States Agency for International Development and a variety of nongovernmental organizations. Prior to her international aid work, she was an environmental journalist and professor of writing and media, and has published poetry, fiction and nonfiction, as well as having won more than half a dozen writing prizes, fellowships and grants. At this time she also is writing an eco-memoir.
