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Tara was a newswoman and correspondent for the Pittsburgh bureau of The Associated Press for 15 years after starting her career as an investigative reporter for the Beaver County Times and founding a small newspaper on the Crow Reservation in Montana. Her many professional accomplishments include Pennsylvania AP staffer of the year and awards for news and investigative reporting from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association, Pennsylvania Women's Press Association, Women in Communications, American Bar Association, American Cancer Society and National Society of Professional Engineers. After leaving the AP, Bradley-Steck taught journalism at the University of Pittsburgh, worked as a media consultant and editor, and most recently served as senior adviser for communications to President Ken Gormley.