TARA PRAKASH
Founder and President
In May of 2022, for Tara's Eagle Project in Scouts, she created a curriculum and taught in-person creative writing workshops to students at an under-resourced elementary school in DC. Watching their growth over the course of the workshops was incredible, and she could see their writing and their passion for language develop. While they had first been so reluctant to write, by the end of the workshops, the students were eagerly writing down and bringing to life memories, experiences, plays, poems, and stories. The experience opened Tara's eyes to the power of writing in honing self-expression, developing purposeful communication, and envisioning and actualizing community change. Tara also had the opportunity to work with Free Minds in February of 2022, a nonprofit that helps incarcerated persons interact with poetry. This work gave Tara deeper insight into how transformative the artistic and creative process can be, inspiring her to expand Write to Right's curriculum and launch workshops and programming all over the world. Write to Right was born.
ABOUT TARA
Tara Prakash is the 2025 National Youth Poet Laureate Runner-Up and the Youth Poet Laureate of the United States South. She also holds the titles of inaugural Maryland Youth Poet Laureate and 2024 Montgomery County Youth Poet Laureate and is the author of Memory Map (Finishing Line Press). A three-time National YoungArts winner and two-time Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold and Silver Medalist (as well as an American Voices Medalist), her work has been recognized by the New York Times, Princeton University, the National Council of Teachers of English, and Narrative Magazine. Her work has appeared in Best American High School Writing, Blue Marble Review, and The Daphne Review, among others. She has performed at The Kennedy Center, the National Press Club, the Smithsonian Institute, and other venues.
In her free time, Tara can be found camping with her Scouts troop, playing ping-pong with her brother, or hiking with her dog Nala. She is an incoming freshman at Princeton University. You can learn more about her at taraprakashwrites.com.