Taara is a Clinical Research Coordinator for the PAIR Center. Before delving into public health, she spent her undergraduate years exploring public policy. This led her to direct a job development program at a women’s shelter, to lobbying for a nurse family partnership policy, to summarizing human rights complaints filed against the U.S. judicial system, and even to identifying human trafficking victims at the LAPD. While these experiences varied drastically, she noticed a common theme: her desire to advance access for women's health services.

Soon after, she pursued a graduate degree in public health, where she had the opportunity to work on qualitative and quantitative studies in rheumatology, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and oncology. Through this process, she had the privilege of interviewing patients and listening to their stories as they braved illness and the healthcare system. Her passion for listening to patients’ narratives and experiences to shape health policy, ultimately brought her to PAIR.

Taara completed a pre-medical Post-Baccalaureate at Goucher College, a Master of Public Health at Yale University, and a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy at the University of Southern California (USC).