Tara Immell

Tara Immell is a financial risk manager focused on urban agriculture, agri-food businesses, and waste reduction. She teaches finance with an emphasis on sustainability. When not teaching, Tara can be found growing or preserving food.

Tara remembers exactly when she first heard about our Earth having planetary boundaries and has focused her career on more sustainable ways of doing business ever since. She went back to school in 2015 to study urban agriculture and has been working with British Columbia farmers ever since. As the general manager of farmers’ markets in Burnaby, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver, Tara helped hundreds of small businesses get started selling local products. At the Food Systems Lab at Simon Fraser University, Tara conducted research into reducing food waste. For Cleanfarms, Tara interviewed farmers in Northern B.C. about their plastic waste. Reducing waste is her current emphasis on Tara is now serving on the Metro Vancouver Solid Waste Management Public/Technical Advisory Committee.

Tara holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from Northwestern University, a Master of Agriculture from Colorado State University, and is a current PhD student of Mathematics Education at Simon Fraser University.