Tamar Miller is the Project Lead for the Goldziher Prize for Journalists. She has been an innovator and ally working on social benefit campaigns for over four decades.

Her work spans a wide spectrum—from introducing contemplative practices to faculty at Harvard and MIT through the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, to managing a parliamentary campaign in Kuwait, to conducting strategic evaluations for the Fetzer Institute’s science and spirituality initiatives.

Tamar was Vice President of Education and a founding partner of American Higher Education, Inc. She also served as a Partner at Middle East Holdings, a business development firm operating in Boston and Dubai. At Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, she served as Director of Leadership Development and later as Executive Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East.

Tamar serves on the boards of the Parents Circle – Families Forum and Combatants for Peace and was a founding board member of the Alliance for Middle East Peace. She is a Senior Advisor to both TRACK TWO: An Institute for Citizen Diplomacy and Making Peace Visible.

With Afeefa Syeed, Tamar co-authored the forthcoming children’s book The Exemplary Life of Emir Abd al-Qadir al-Jazairy, illustrated by renowned artist DEMI.

Tamar holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Judaic Studies, a Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University, and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. She raised three daughters in Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A. and is now grandmother to five little ones, whose futures inspire her pursuit of peace.