Tara Turk-Haynes

Tara Turk-Haynes is VP of DEI and Talent Management at Leaf Group where she oversees Leaf Group’s diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as hiring efforts. She joined Leaf Group in 2016 as Director of People, leading employee engagement, talent acquisition, and learning and development programs. Before joining Leaf Group, she was Director of Administration of Operations for Metacloud, a Cisco Company.

She is a first-generation graduate from Eugene Lang College, The New School, where she studied Social, Cultural, and Urban Studies, and Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied theatre. Her work has appeared in Tamara Winfrey Harris’s “Dear Black Girl” - a letter to young Black girls from Black Women along with Tarana Burke and others. She has also been featured in Lars Schmidt’s “Redefining HR” book and podcast.