Tara serves as a researcher and outreach coordinator under the center. The formative years of her youth at school learning about international affairs have galvanized her interest in environmental policy through regional, domestic, and global means. Tara is also first generation American and she is proficient in Farsi; her Iranian background has also served as a motivator in her interest in Global relations. Aside from the center, Tara works as a barista at a local coffee shop in Cambridge as well as a director of finance at a music label, organized by her friends at Berklee College of Music, named Analogue Records.