Tara Pham is the founder and CEO of Numina, a tech company that aims to measure all forms of street-level activities in cities in a privacy-first approach. She has led various city-scale data projects with prominent foundations such as John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Code for America, and more. She is a former Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur, Mercedes Benz EQ Fellow, and winner of the $50,000 Globalhack hackathon. Tara co-hosts Women Who Hardware, a community that brings together female doers in NYC's hardware ecosystem. She studied International Studies, Public Health, and Mechanical/Structural Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis and got her HS Diploma at The Branson School. Before civic tech, Tara worked in various fields such as public health/urban design research, radio and print media, and arts administration.