Tara Abrahams is a passionate global advocate for girls and women. She is currently Head of Impact at The Meteor, a media company that uses the power of storytelling to advance one of the greatest causes of our time: the freedom and dignity of all women. Tara also serves as board chair of She’s The First, a global girls’ rights organization that reaches 150,000 girls around the world every year; and of International Center for Research on Women, a global research institute working to accelerate global progress towards gender equity.

Prior to The Meteor, Tara served as a managing director at Arabella Advisors, as interim managing director of VOW, an initiative working to end child marriage around the world, and as executive director of The Girl Project at Glamour.

Tara began her work in girls’ education and women’s empowerment as the president and deputy director of Girl Rising, a global campaign that raised awareness about the importance of educating girls in the Global South. Tara served as founding director of the Maverick Capital Foundation, as a strategy consultant at The Bridgespan Group, and as a managing director at Acelero Learning. She has advised a variety of leading girl-focused initiatives, from Girls Who Code to the Girls Opportunity Alliance at the Obama Foundation.

Tara graduated from Harvard College and completed her MBA at Harvard Business School, where she received the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship for outstanding contributions to the nonprofit sector. Tara leads global efforts related to women’s empowerment and anti-racism as a board member of the Harvard Alumni Association.