Tamar Miller is Project Lead for the Goldziher Prize for Journalists, and a social benefit organizer. Her practice has ranged from working with the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, introducing Harvard and MIT faculty to meditation as a pedagogic practice; to crafting a parliamentary campaign in Kuwait; to strategic evaluations for the Fetzer Institute’s science and spirituality unit.

Tamar was VP Education and one of three founders of American Higher Education, Inc. based in Cambridge, MA., and was Partner in Middle East Holdings, a business development firm in Boston and Dubai. She is the former Director of Leadership Development and Executive Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at Harvard's Kennedy School.

Tamar is active on the board of directors of the Parents’ Circle for Bereaved Families, and Combatants for Peace and was on the founding board of the Alliance for Middle East Peace. She is Senior Advisor to TRACK TWO: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy and to Making Peace Visible. With Afeefa Syeed, she is co-author of a soon-to-be-published children’s book entitled The Exemplary Life of Emir Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairy, illustrated by DEMI.

Miller holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Judaic Studies, Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.