Tara Thomas

Tara Thomas currently serves as the Senior Managing Director of Risk Strategy at Teach for America, an education nonprofit. In this role, she leads Teach For America’s Risk Management function by asking (and helping answer) the following question: “What would derail TFA’s efforts and impact its ability to achieve its objectives?”

Prior to joining Teach for America, she worked for a social impact strategy firm where she supported nonprofits, foundations, and social enterprises to help achieve their social missions.

Tara is a 2011 graduate from the MIT Sloan School of Management where she was a Forte Fellow as well as a Seley Scholar.

Prior to pursuing a graduate degree, Tara worked for IBM as a strategy consultant and worked with a series of Fortune 1000 clients on large-scale strategy, change, and implementation projects. Tara graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan in 2006 with a dual honors concentration in Economics and Organizational Studies.