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Tara Sun Vanacore

Research Assistant
China Environment Forum

Expertise:
Energy
;
Environment
;
Biodiversity
;
China Environment
;
Climate
;
Environmental Security
;
Environmental Health
;
Asia
;
China Mainland

Tara Sun Vanacore is a graduate student in the Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs program at American University’s School of International Service. She majored in Chinese language and literature at Middlebury College. She worked as a summer intern for the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum in 2012.

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Nov 19, 2012
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