Tara Kola
Founder & Executive Director at Self-employed
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTara Kola is a multidisciplinary experience researcher and founder with 11 years of practice designing child- and youth-focused products, educational programs, and storytelling initiatives. She has led research and product work at Adobe and Rebel Girls, translating mixed-methods insights into inclusive creative tools and a sleep-story app for girls, and now runs The Banyan Tree to expand history-driven, representation-first media pathways for young people. Tara blends HCI and domain expertise—BS in Computer Science and an MA in History—with classroom teaching and academic research experience to craft evidence-based learning experiences. Known for a child-first, equity-first approach, she pairs rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods with hands-on product development and community co-design to move representation from concept into cultural narratives.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Education International & Multicultural Education, Doctor of Education International & Multicultural Education at University of San FranciscoMaster of Arts - MA History, Master of Arts - MA History at Tufts University
English, Chinese, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
hackage6
parsing5
haskell3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kolatara/kolatara.github.com
Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 months
kolatara/onebusaway-android
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
android-appkotlinonebusawayandroid
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