Tara Kangarlou is an award-winning American journalist who has produced, written, and reported for NBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera America as well as digital news outlets such as Al Monitor, The Huffington Post, and NewsMax. She is currently a fellow at the East West Institute and a frequent on-air contributor for various international news outlets covering the MENA region, foreign affairs, and humanitarian issues. As a journalist, she has interviewed many high ranking government officials, heads of states, and news makers in the US and around the world; and in recent years has spent much time in the Syrian border regions of Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan reporting and covering issues that impact Syrian refugees, host countries, and the Middle East at large. In 2015, she led Al Jazeera America's team from inside Iran during the historic nuclear negotiations between the UN Security Council's five permanent members and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Tara has also reported from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, the world's largest refugee camp, covering the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims fleeing from Myanmar.

In 2018, Tara was the recipient of the Ted Sorensen Award from Network 20/20 for her impact journalism and humanitarian work in conflict zones. In 2016, she founded ART OF HOPE, the first American nonprofit with the sole mission of supporting the psycho-social and mental health needs of war-torn refugees. Tara was born and raised in Tehran, is fully bilingual in English and Farsi, and currently splits her time between London and New York.