Tamara Jeffries is a writer, editor, and teacher. She currently works as the Senior Editor at Yoga Journal. Tamata has been an editor for Essence, Health, and HealthQuest magazines, and as a journalism professor at Bennett College. At Bennett, she also teaches the first for-credit yoga class at a historically Black college. She completed yoga teacher training in 2013, and meditation teacher training under the Open Heart Project in 2020. She has served as editor of the BYTA blog, and as an advisor for Yoga Alliance Standards Review Project.