Neshaminy High School English Teacher
AFTPA Vice President
Bucks County Central Labor Council 3rd Vice President
Bucks County Association for Retired and Senior Citizens Trustee
Since 2014, Tara Huber has been the president of the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers, Southeast Vice President of the AFT PA, and the third vice president of the Bucks County Labor Council. During her tenure as president, she peacefully negotiated four contracts which improved learning conditions for students and staff, as well as raised wages and benefits for members. Within the NFT, she serves as chair of the Grievance Committee, a member of the Constitutional Committee, and co-chair of the Committee to Support Public Education. As a rank and file member and then an NFT vice president, she was a union spokesperson and chairperson of the Community Outreach Team, and a Policy Advisory Committee member. At Neshaminy High School, she served as the chairperson of the Discipline Committee.
Tara’s leadership has been recognized both locally and statewide. In 2018, she received the NAACP Bucks County Community Service Award. In 2021, she was honored as the Woman of the Year by the Bucks County Central Labor Council. The following year, in 2022, she was elected as a Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Executive Council alternate. In 2024, she served as the statewide Political Organizer for AFT Pennsylvania during the election, supporting locals in their organizing and member mobilization efforts. That same year, she was appointed labor trustee for the Bucks County Association for Retired and Senior Citizens.
In October 2020, during President Joe Biden’s successful bid for the White House, Tara was chosen to introduce him at a campaign rally held in Bucks County—an honor reflecting her years of advocacy and leadership.
Her continued work in the community includes fundraising to support Bucks County labor union members who are in need of food for the holidays and collecting food from NFT members to fill the Neshaminy High School Food Pantry for students. In 2017, she worked with community leaders to organize the March Against Hate in Levittown after racist vandalism appeared on the Hoover Elementary School sign and two victims at Middletown Trace Apartments had their cars vandalized with slurs and broken windows. In Fall 2018, she again worked with community leaders to organize a candlelight vigil and town hall meeting in response to anti-Semitic graffiti at Carl Sandburg Middle School. She is a member of the Pearl S. Buck Welcome Workplace initiative which supports district-wide diversity and inclusion programming.
Tara began teaching at Neshaminy in 1997 and was the adviser of The Playwickian, Neshaminy High School's student newspaper, from 2000–2016. In 2016, she served as an AFT delegate to the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) to voice the needs of local Native American students and their families.
She was named Journalism Teacher of the Year for 2014–2015 by the Pennsylvania Scholastic Press Association and honored with the 2014 National Liberty Museum Teacher as Hero Award, the 2015 Ancil Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism, and the 2015 Native American Journalism Association Free Press Award. Her newspaper editors received the 2014 ACLU Civil Libertarian Award, and The City Council of Philadelphia passed a resolution in support of Tara and the editors for taking a controversial stand against offensive Native American mascotry and fighting for scholastic press freedom.
The Playwickian editors were honored in 2014 with the Student Press Law Center and National Scholastic Press Association Courage in Journalism Award. The editorial, “Why we won’t publish the r-word,” won the 2014 Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Student Keystone Press Award.
Tara grew up in Northeast Philadelphia, graduated from Lehigh University with an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Communications, and holds a Master’s in English Education and Administration from Temple University. She has been a teacher at Neshaminy High School in Langhorne, Pa. since 1997 and currently resides in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. with her husband and four children.