Tara Gallagher specializes in developing and communicating sustainability strategies and in assessing water resource needs and risk at Pure Strategies. She assists clients with sustainability communications and with the development and execution of organizational strategies to improve their sustainability performance. She has provided support to leading companies such as Walmart and Seventh Generation on supply chain engagement and the development of performance indicators. She also specializes in CSR reporting and wrote the award-winning 2007 and 2008 Seventh Generation Corporate Responsibility Reports as well as the company’s 2009-2012 reports. Tara has also worked at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection assessing risks to drinking water supplies and developing water supply protection policies and regulations. The US Environmental Protection Agency honored her in 2001 with an Environmental Merit Award for her water supply protection initiatives. Tara was a visiting lecturer in the Geography Department at Salem State University from 2004–2010.
Tara has a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University and a B.A. in English from Middlebury College.
