Tara Zepel

Tara Zepel is a skilled Digital Marketing Technologist at Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. since July 2021, previously serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of British Columbia from November 2018 to June 2021, where assistance was provided to chemists in utilizing and communicating data creatively. Tara has a diverse background, including freelance design work addressing branding and design needs from September 2013 to October 2018, and completion of an Insight Data Science Fellowship in 2018, where product and user trends were identified for a start-up mobile beauty app. Academic contributions include teaching media arts and technology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and pioneering Cultural Analytics as a Graduate Researcher at the Software Studies Lab. Tara holds a PhD in Art History, Theory & Criticism from UC San Diego and a BA in Cultural Studies from Duke University.