Tamara Ward is an award-winning journalist, a 2023 NABJ Pew Youth Justice Fellow, and a current MS candidate in Artificial Intelligence for Business. She produced a data-driven series on disproportionate school-based arrests in Maryland's public schools. A former E&E News fellow, she covered environmental and energy policy on Capitol Hill, the 2020 presidential election, House impeachment hearings, and the COVID-19 outbreak.
Previously a staff writer for APG Media, she reported on government and politics in Southern Maryland and the statehouse in Annapolis, earning two Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association awards.
She held a fellowship in the U.S. House of Representatives through a Brookings Institution emersion program, and authored a policy paper on the use of AI and Machine Learning to combat the Opioid epidemic for the Olin Brookings Commission. With expertise bridging journalism, public policy, and AI, she decodes technology's societal impacts through storytelling. Transitioning from federal roles USDA, FEMA, and IRS as a strategic communicator, she now focuses on content creation and AI ethics.
