Hi, I’m Tara, I’m excited about inclusive design methods that uplift communities & form meaningful futures. I work at the intersection of design research, computation, and policy interventions.



EDUCATION 📖

🏭 Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Master of Architecture I
Design Leadership Scholarship

🎨 Pratt Institute, School of Design 
BFA in Communications Design
Minor in Art History. Presidential Scholarship.


EXPERIENCE 🏗️

📊 Research Assistant, Arctic Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School.
Cambridge, MA. 2023–2024

🌳 Bloomberg Harvard Fellow, Climate Resilience City of Vancouver, WA. Vancouver, WA. 2023

🌅 Harvard Climate Intern, Salata Institute, Harvard Kennedy School. 2023

📋 Word Embeddings Sentiment Analysis with Andrew Witt, Harvard GSD. Cambridge, MA. 2023–2024

🖇️ UX Research Assistant, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. Cambridge, MA 2022–2023

🥕 Graduate Food Systems Researcher, Urban Legacy Lands Initiative. Riverside, IN 2022

🧩 Webmaster and UX Researcher, HKS Student Policy Journals. Cambridge, MA. 2021–2022

🏢 Design Consultant, IDEO. Cambridge, MA 2022

🍎 Art Direction & UX Design Intern, Apple Inc. Cupertino, CA 2019

🖼️ DTC Intern, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). New York City, NY 2018

SKILLS 📎

⌨️ Software 
Natural Language Processing
Python, R, SQL, HTML & CSS, Java
Data Visualization & Data Analysis
ArcGIS, Adobe Suite, AutoCAD, Blender, Figma

🔧 Research Design
Experimental Design A/B Testing
Survey Design
Semi Structured Interviewing
Focus Groups
User Research & Prototyping
Usability Testing
Qualtrics

🚀 Management
Project + Program Development & Management
Microsoft Suite, Google Suite, Notion, Salesforce, Teamwork, DAMS