About Tara Shafer
Tara Shafer is a writer and activist living in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and on National Public Radio, as well as Psychology Today, Huffington Post, and BabyCenter. She served as the Deputy Representative of Amnesty International to the United Nations during the wars in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda and continued as the Asylum Program Officer at Human Rights First, coordinating direct pro bono services for indigent asylum seekers. Editor-in-chief of Give InKind, an online connectivity service for those in the aftermath of trauma or transition, she also most recently served as Executive Director of Wethersfield Garden. She has collaborated with the National Institute of Health in delivering a keynote speech to the Placenta Project’s researchers and has taught political science at Marist College. She has an MA in Human Rights from Columbia University and was the inaugural recipient of the Meidav Award for Creative Nonfiction.