Tara graduated from Georgetown University in 2001. While studying for her BS in linguistics she spent a semester at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and a summer at the Institut de Touraine, in Tours, France.

Since graduating she has worked as the marketing assistant to architects Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner at Marmol Radziner + Associates in Los Angeles and to chef David Bouley and artist Peter Halley in New York City. Tara has made a reputation on executing her responsibilities with a high level of confidentiality for principals and high profile clients and for her unerring efficiency.

Although Tara seems to possess too much common sense for show business, she does come by it honestly. Her uncle Patrick Kelly was an award-winning commercial director and writer known for his 1980s fast-talking Federal Express spots, and her grandmother, Margie Stevens, was a puppeteer.

Presently, Tara is earning a master's degree in historic preservation at the Pratt Institute.