OUR FACILITATORS
Tara Harvey, PhD
Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
- Intercultural training
- Coaching and consulting
- Facilitating intercultural learning through study away
- Internationalization of higher education
Personal Leadership work
Tara Harvey, PhD, is passionate about helping people learn and grow through international and intercultural experiences. She has been involved with Personal Leadership since 2008, and uses PL in her work with educators and students around the world. Through her educational consulting/training company, True North Intercultural, LLC, Tara offers an eight-week online professional development program, called "Foundations of Intercultural Learning & Teaching," that incorporates the Personal Leadership framework.
Tara created the curriculum for CIEE: Council on International Educational Exchange’s signature course, Intercultural Communication and Leadership. It is now used by more than 20 study centers around the world, teaching study abroad participants how to use Personal Leadership as a process for understanding and learning from their experiences.
Other work
Tara is the Founder of True North Intercultural, LLC, an educational training/consulting company that helps educators foster intercultural learning. She has been in the field of international and intercultural education for more than 15 years: teaching English abroad, advising international students, conducting research, facilitating intercultural training, teaching intercultural courses, designing curriculum, and training fellow educators.
Tara co-authored a chapter in the popular book, Student learning abroad: What our students are learning, what they’re not, and what we can do about it (Vande Berg, Paige & Lou, 2012). She is now writing a follow-up book with Dr. Michael Vande Berg, to be published by Stylus in 2019.
Tara has worked at Texas A&M, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, and for CIEE.
She has worked at Texas A&M, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, and for CIEE.
Personal background
Born and raised in Minnesota, Tara studied abroad and later worked for several years in Spain. She has also lived in multiple places in the Midwest, South, and East Coast of the U.S. She has traveled extensively and worked with students and educators from around the world. Her partner was born and raised in southern Spain. Tara is fluent in English and Spanish, and she and her partner are raising their two children bilingually.
Academic
Tara holds a Bachelors in Communication Studies and Hispanic Studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; a Masters in International Relations from the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset in Madrid, Spain; a Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison; and a PhD in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota.
Other interests
In what little free time she can muster, Tara enjoys playing fútbol with her kids, getting out into nature, exercise of any kind, and reading.
To contact Tara
tara@truenorthintercultural.
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