Tara Blackwell

Donoghue Fellow

Tara is the inaugural Homelessness Advice and Representation Program (HARP) Donoghue Fellow. She focuses on expanding HARP in partnership with housing service providers.

She earned her BA in History from University of California: San Diego in 2020 and her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2024. During law school, Tara worked as an Equal Justice Works Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellow at the Cener for Arkansas Legal Services and an Economic Justice Intern at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond, Virginia.

In her spare time, Tara likes to search for the best matcha latte in all of Chicago.