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Director of Consulting Services
Greenlights for NonProfit Success
Tara Kirkland loves her work as the Director of Consulting Services. Tara brings to Greenlights experience gained from building the capacity of people, organizations and communities in diverse nonprofit, government and for-profit settings over the past fifteen years. An Austin native, Tara returned to Central Texas in the fall of 2004 after spending several years in the northeast - including two years as a Presidential Management Fellow for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's Southwest Border Initiative in Washington, DC. She is a proud graduate of both the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University and the Plan II Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin. A recipient of the John Ben Snow Fellowship in Nonprofit Management from the Maxwell School, Tara focused her work there on executive leadership transitions and organizational and program evaluation. Tara’s Austin area nonprofit experience includes designing, managing and evaluating programs and projects with Family Forward and the Charles A. Dana Center at UT Austin, grassroots institution-based organizing with Austin Interfaith, and leadership and team development consulting with Highest Vision, Inc. Tara is also a member of the 2009 Leadership Austin Essentials class.