Tara Puckey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF), cultivating and managing business partnerships, procuring grants, creating new development initiatives and other strategic endeavors. Prior to her position at RTDNA/RTDNF, she served as the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Interim Executive Director, Associate Executive Director and Membership Strategist. Tara specializes in leadership training, and takes pride in having trained over 300 leaders at SPJ’s Ted Scripps Leadership Institute, as well as several nonprofit journalism association boards. She has a journalism degree from Indiana University-Purdue University, as well as an MBA, and resides in Indianapolis with her husband and two daughters.