Tamar serves as the Senior Director of Marketing & Communications at Jewish Communal Fund, the largest and most active Jewish donor advised fund in the country, managing $2 billion in charitable assets for 4,000 charitable funds. An award-winning journalist, Tamar worked for several years as a staff writer at The Jewish Week in New York. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School, a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from NYU/Wagner, and an MA in Hebrew and Judaic Studies from NYU. She created a financial literacy curriculum for Jewish teen girls and presented the program to nearly 500 teens as part of Jewish Women International’s Life$avings project, and has taught Personal Finance & Philanthropy at Manhattan High School. She is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance (CEPF). Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Edutopia, Inc. magazine, The Forward, The Staten Island Advance, MSN.com, Chase.com and several other publications.