Julie Tarr Project Director Julie Tarr is a part-time Associate Project Director at OMG. She has over 20 years of experience in philanthropy, applied research and evaluation, and nonprofit management. Her most recent position was program and evaluation director at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, where she managed an annual grant portfolio of $5.5 million and designed evaluation plans to measure the impact of community and national investments. Prior to joining Knight Foundation, she was Associate Director of the Center for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, and has worked in housing and community development in New York City and Chicago. Julie earned a doctorate in education from Rutgers University Graduate School of Education and holds a Master’s in Urban Planning and a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Illinois. < Return to Staff Listing