Tamar Miller holds the distinction of creating and operating Out-of-the-Box portfolios for social benefit organizations and institutions of higher learning. She is Project Lead for curriculum development for the Abdelkader Education Project and Project Lead for the Goldziher Prize for Journalists.. She teaches civic engagement and the politics of diversity. Her consulting practice ranges from working with the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, introducing Harvard and MIT faculty to meditation as a pedagogic practice; to crafting a parliamentary campaign in Kuwait; to strategic evaluations for the Fetzer Institute’s science and spirituality unit. Tamar was VP Education and one of three founders of American Higher Education, Inc. based in Cambridge, MA. She was also a Partner in Middle East Holdings, a business development firm in Boston and Dubai.

Beginning as Director of Leadership Development at Harvard’s Kennedy School, she then held the position of Executive Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East. Tamar is advisor to Track Two: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy; on the board of directors of Combatants for Peace, the Parents’ Circle for Bereaved Israeli and Palestinian Families; President of an organization dedicated to public art campaigns called “I Am Your Protector” and was on the founding board of the Alliance for Middle East Peace. Tamar holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. Just today, she found inspiration from activists, academics, and peacemakers, thanks to Tova Hartman, Marshall Ganz, Malcolm Sparrow, Louise and Yahya Michot, Ari Goldman, Amitai Abouzaglo, Huda Abu Arqoub, Dulce and Michael Murphy, Baker Roshi, Dani Varadi, Aziz Abu Sarah, her three daughters and of course, Sherman Teichman.