Who: Tara is the president of the non-profit Perception International, under which Izilwane is run. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Izilwane, an online magazine. Here’s Tara’s website.
Where: Travels the globe but makes her home in Taos, New Mexico.
What: She founded Izilwane to explore, with the help of others, how human beings can shift their perceptions so as to learn to co-exist with other species and nature.
They are looking for freelance writers, photographers, and videographers, who want to write about ecological anthropology, human ecology, loss of biodiversity, how humans can change our perceptions to reduce biodiversity loss by seeing ourselves as embedded in nature, etc. You can contact them here about spec pieces etc.
Tara’s also an environmental and medical anthropologist who has worked as an international development consultant for UNICEF, the United States Agency for International Development, and a variety of nongovernmental organizations. Prior to international aid work, she was an environmental journalist and professor of writing and media, and has published poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as having won more than half a dozen writing prizes, fellowships, and grants. She’s writing a creative nonfiction book and is at work on an eco-memoir.
In Her Words:
The planet, other species, and other people have sustained and helped you over the years. Now it’s time to “give back” for all you’ve received. When you live a life passionately helping others and our planet, you will receive far more than you ever give.
Please leave comments below if you have worked with Tara or are inspired by her work!
