Tara Grigg Green is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Foster Care Advocacy Center, a multidisciplinary nonprofit law office that represents children and parents involved in child welfare proceedings.  She is Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Child Welfare Law.  Tara’s passion for this field comes from her family’s experience as a foster family caring for over one hundred foster children. 

She has received many honors and awards for her work in the field, including the State Bar of Texas Child Protection Law Section's Rutland Excellence in Advocacy Award, the Association of Women Attorneys Foundation Houston Premier Women in Law Award, and the National Association of Counsel for Children’s Outstanding Young Lawyer.  Prior to founding Foster Care Advocacy Center, Tara was a Staff Attorney and Skadden Fellow in the Houston office of Disability Rights Texas, helping to develop the Foster Care Team by providing direct representation to foster children with disabilities in state child welfare proceedings and ancillary proceedings, such as special education litigation and Medicaid appeals.  Tara has published several law review articles and research papers on the constitutional rights of children and families and quality legal representation in child welfare proceedings.  She also clerked for the Hon. Micaela Alvarez of the U.S. Southern District of Texas in McAllen.

Tara holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was a Toll Public Interest Scholar, a M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she was a Taubman Fellow, and a B.A. from Rice University where she majored in Sociology and the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. At Rice, Tara was captain of the Rice Cheerleading Team, Secretary of the Honor Council, and Baker College Chief Justice.