Tamar works as a Strategic Consultant to Jewish nonprofits, including the Jewish Communal Fund, specializing in the areas of communications/marketing, strategic planning, social media, and program development. An award-winning reporter, Tamar worked for several years as a staff writer at The Jewish Week in New York, where she covered social entrepreneurship and philanthropy. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia Journalism School and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Staten Island Advance, Edutopia, Inc. Magazine, and a variety of other publications. Tamar is completing a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) at NYU/Wagner, as well as an MA in Hebrew and Judaic Studies. 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. She serves as a board member of Yeshivat He’Atid, an innovative yeshiva day school model in Bergen County, N.J., that incorporates 21st century learning to provide an affordable, quality Jewish education that is replicable in other communities.