WorkshopsTara Gray serves as associate professor of criminal justice and as the first director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The Teaching Academy provides NMSU educators with training, mentoring, and networking.
Tara was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Southwestern College in Kansas and Oklahoma State, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics by asking, “Do prisons pay?” She taught economics at Denison University before joining the Department of Criminal Justice at NMSU. She has published three books, including her most recent, Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at NMSU and nationally with eight awards for teaching or service.
Tara has presented faculty development workshops to 3,000 participants in more than twenty-five of the United States, and in Mexico, Guatemala, and Thailand. Workshop participants report that she is “spirited, entertaining, and informative—she’s anything but gray!™”