Tara Gallagher specializes in sustainability and corporate responsibility policy analysis. Her recent work includes authoring the award-winning 2007 and 2008 Seventh Generation Corporate Responsibility Reports, and preparing/editing briefs on topics ranging from toxics in children’s products to climate change initiatives at the community level. Before joining Pure Strategies, Ms. Gallagher worked at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection assessing risks to drinking water supplies and developing policies and regulations for water supply protection. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency honored her in 2001 with an Environmental Merit Award for her water supply protection initiatives. Tara has worked on a broader range of environmental and natural resource issues for the Environmental Law Institute, the Atlantic Center for the Environment, and in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has been a visiting lecturer in the Geography Department at Salem State College since 2004.
Tara has a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University and a B.A. in English from Middlebury College. She is the Chairperson of her town’s Renewable Energy Committee and a member of the North Shore Writers’ Group. Her work at Pure Strategies is a natural outgrowth of a longstanding commitment to sustainability.

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