Tara Susman-Peña is Senior Technical Advisor at IREX, where she is part of the Center for Applied Learning and Impact, and specializes in information and media in global development. She currently focuses on the adaptation and expansion of IREX's media and information literacy methodology, Learn to Discern (L2D), to the United States, Tunisia, Iraq, and other countries. Tara designed IREX's Vibrant Information Approach to information and media development and is currently constructing and piloting the related measurement, VIBE (the Vibrant Information Barometer). She has also managed media development projects in East Africa, Latin America, and Europe / Eurasia. Previously she worked at Internews, NPR, and in commercial market research, and she taught global media development at George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Studies.