She teaches in the English department and the Gender Studies Program, and coordinates the college's Writing Across the Curriculum Program. Tara is a native New Yorker who spent much of her 20s and 30sin the midwest. While a professor in Wisconsin, she advised the university's LGBTQ student group: Rainbow Alliance for HOPE, and served on both the Alliance for Equity and Diversityand theLBGTQ Awareness and Advocacy Committee. Tara now lives in Brooklyn with her wife and six pets and is looking forwardto the opportunity to work with John Jay's LGBTQ students.