Tara Jones

A Bit about Me

I am an Academic Achievement Counselor III and Coordinator of the African diasporic Cultural Resource Center for the Educational Opportunity Program. I am a proud Gaucho alumna, Class of 2003. I graduated from UCSB with degrees in Sociology and Black Studies, graduating with honors and distinction in the major. I am also a final stage doctoral candidate in Depth Psychology, specializing in Community, Liberation, & Eco-Psychologies at Pacifica Graduate Institute (PGI). I earned Masters degrees in the Science of Teaching at Fordham University, Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology at PGI, and Depth Psychology, specializing in Community, Liberation, and Eco-psychologies at PGI. I also studied Caribbean Literature and Multicultural Societies of the Caribbean at the University of Sussex, in Brighton, England in the School of African and Asian Studies.