Tara Martinez

Tara Martinez is a writer, social justice advocate, and coach who has spent over a decade honing her communications skills in both for-profit and non-profit spaces. Professionally, she uses a combination of writing, storytelling, and coaching to facilitate learning, growth, and creativity. Personally, she’s a pop culture nerd. In all things, she’s guided by a strong and steady internal compass that forges my path ahead with integrity, thoughtfulness, and care.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Stony Brook University and a certificate in Organizational Development through the University of Minnesota. In 2021, she was selected to participate in the second cohort of The Equity Lab’s Nexus Fellowship, which builds leaders’ capacity to design and implement race equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) initiatives within their organizations.

In 2022, Tara pursued a coaching certification through the Academy of Creative Coaching, an ICF accredited coach training program (ACTP) with a focus on cultural humility and inclusion coaching. In December 2022, she was officially accepted into NASA’s database of IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) practitioners. Those invited to participate sit on panels that review Inclusion Plans submitted with scientific proposals, ensuring that NASA-funded activities align with their IDEA goals.  

As of April 2024, Tara is a fully credentialed coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation (ICF). To date, she has coached and advised leaders and change agents at organizations like Apple, Google, Northrop Grumman, SeatGeek, and the Wounded Warrior Project.

She is passionate about pursuing opportunities to do meaningful work that fosters social change. To date, she has helped organizations and individuals working to build equity in education, social services, climate change, and filmmaking and oral history archiving.