Tara Roberts is a National Geographic Storytelling Fellow and a Fellow at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab.
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Journalist who writes about women’s empowerment and a social entrepreneur.
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Tara Roberts is a National Geographic Storytelling Fellow and a Fellow at MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. She spent the last year following, diving with and telling stories about black scuba divers as they search for and help document slave shipwrecks around the world. Her goal is to reimagine and reframe the origin story of Africans in the Americas and to tell stories that humanize and bring empathy, nuance and complexity to their human journey.
Tara has also worked as an editor for CosmoGirl, Essence, AOL, EBONY and Heart & Soul and edited several books for girls. She founded her own magazine for women ‘too bold for boundaries.’ And she spent an amazing and fulfilling year backpacking around the world to find and tell stories about women social entrepreneurs.
This journey led to the creation of a social enterprise that supported and funded the big ideas of those female change agents, a stint running communications for Ashoka and time coaching social entrepreneurs for Red Bull’s Amaphiko Academy.
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