Tara Liloia
Tara is a freelance writer working on a pictorial history of the Lake Champlain Islands.She was recently the Web Manager at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Before that, Tara was the Technology Director at Democracy for America.
She was also formerly in Online Research at CXO Media, working on the websites for magazines like CIO, CMO, CSO, BIO-IT World and Darwin. Even though she was a researcher, she also dabbled in PHP, ColdFusion, MySQL and XML.
Tara blogs at Liloia.com with her husband Dave.
Tara lives on a Vermont island in the middle of Lake Champlain.
Her email address is tara@liloia.com.
In 1999, Tara was the Community Director & Content Coordinator for the knowledge-sharing community, KnowPost.com. The site is gone, but threads of community still reach out across the globe and she still keeps in touch with many of the former members. Are you a former KP member? Email her and say hi.
Tara used to live in Hong Kong and attend school at the Hong Kong International School.
Tara was the Contributing Editor for an online column about vegetarianism on Suite101.com. She no longer practices vegetarianism anymore because bacon is just that good.
Tara speaks a little of this. And a read little of that. Plus a lot of this.
Tara reads these magazines: MIT technology Review, Martha Stewart Living, Real Simple, Yankee, Inc., Entertainment Weekly, Jane, Time, CIO, CSO, BioIT World
Tara graduated from Douglass College within Rutgers University with degrees in comparative literature and political science.
Movies that Tara will sit and watch with you:
Back To The Future
Fight Club
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Poltergeist
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Real Genius
Sense & Sensability
Seven
Silence Of The Lambs
Star Wars: A New Hope
Tron
The Usual Suspects
War Games
Xanadu
Defending Your Life
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Moulin Rouge
Monsters Inc.
Fargo
Life Is Beautiful
Pulp Fiction
St. Elmos Fire
The Breakfast Club
Say Anything
Die Hard
Ghostbusters
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
The Goonies
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Airplane
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Better Off Dead
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
The Addams Family
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Heathers
Chasing Amy
Independence Day
The Fifth Element
Dogma
One Crazy Summer
Spirited Away
Whale Rider
Movies that will make Tara leave the room:
Dirty Dancing
Rocky
Footloose
Weird Science
Forrest Gump
Clueless
American Pie
Home Alone
City Slickers
Dumb and Dumber
Babe
The Godfather
Tommy
A League of Their Own
Jerry Maguire
High Fidelity
Boxing Helena
28 Days Later