Hi, I'm Tara Horn!

I live in Portland, Oregon, where I enjoy very typical Portland things like eating at food carts, drinking local beers, and cooking tasty food. I also enjoy riding my big blue bike when the weather is nice.

Although I'm a big fan of doing not too much in general, my current hobby is making belts. Happy vegan belts. Well, belt buckles, at least. You can buy them there at my Etsy shop! Isn't that great?

I also work at Portland State University. At the Survey Research Lab and Regional Research Institute, doing applied social research. I'm particularly fond of qualitative data analysis and participatory research methods. I have a Masters of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development, so that works out well. If I could do absolutely anything for work right now, I would do organizational development and capacity building for grassroots and community-based organizations, using participatory research models. Things like program evaluation and impact assessments.

You can find my resume here.

Other fun and interesting things I've done include:

I currently help coordinate the Burma Action Committee here in Portland.

You can also find me on Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook

Articles I've Written


What next for the Saffron revolution?
Published in Pragati: The Indian National Interest Review; Issue 7, October 2007

Caught between countries: The Shan in Thailand
Published in INTHEFRAY Magazine, July 2005



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