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Tara Setmayer
Tara Olivia Setmayer (born September 9, 1975) is the co-founder and CEO of The Seneca Project. She is a former CNN political commentator, contributor to ABC News and former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill. She has appeared on ABC's The View, ABC's Good Morning America, and on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. On January 9, 2020, Setmayer was named as a Harvard Institute of Politics Spring 2020 Resident Fellow. Also in January 2020, she joined The Lincoln Project, where she served as a senior advisor and host of the live show The Breakdown alongside co-founder Rick Wilson, on the organization's streaming channel, LPTV, until June 2024 when she departed the organization without public explanation.
Setmayer is a University of Virginia Center for Politics Resident Scholar (2020–present.) In collaboration with the Center for Politics, she narrated the 3-part documentary, Dismantling Democracy, which aired nationally on PBS stations in September 2020 and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
After spending 27 years in political communications with the Republican Party, Setmayer publicly left the GOP in November 2020.
Setmayer was born in 1975 in Queens, New York, but raised in Paramus, a borough of Bergen County in northern New Jersey. She is an only child, raised by a single mom, Deborah, who had been a Broadway dancer. Deborah was 21 and single when Tara was born, and left her career to raise Tara.
Tara's family has been longtime residents of Paramus. Her grandfather, Emil Setmayer, served 40 years with the Paramus Police Department, retiring as captain, and also spent 71 years with the Paramus Company 03 Volunteer Fire Department. She was educated at Paramus High School, a public high school in Bergen County, New Jersey, from which she graduated in 1993, followed by The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in political science with a focus on public policy and journalism.
Setmayer is of mixed heritage: Her mother is of German and Italian descent and her father is of Afro-Guatemalan descent.
In the early 2000s, Setmayer served as a former research fellow and communications specialist for the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education (CURE), a non-profit organization dealing with the impact of social policies on America's inner cities and the poor. She also served as a political trainer for GOPAC, a conservative organization specializing in educating, organizing and training grassroots Republicans intending to run for public office.
For over two years, Setmayer served as a community liaison advocating on a variety of issues including affordable housing and services for the chronically homeless and children in South Florida where she co-founded a faith-based homeless program.
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Tara Setmayer
Tara Olivia Setmayer (born September 9, 1975) is the co-founder and CEO of The Seneca Project. She is a former CNN political commentator, contributor to ABC News and former GOP communications director on Capitol Hill. She has appeared on ABC's The View, ABC's Good Morning America, and on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. On January 9, 2020, Setmayer was named as a Harvard Institute of Politics Spring 2020 Resident Fellow. Also in January 2020, she joined The Lincoln Project, where she served as a senior advisor and host of the live show The Breakdown alongside co-founder Rick Wilson, on the organization's streaming channel, LPTV, until June 2024 when she departed the organization without public explanation.
Setmayer is a University of Virginia Center for Politics Resident Scholar (2020–present.) In collaboration with the Center for Politics, she narrated the 3-part documentary, Dismantling Democracy, which aired nationally on PBS stations in September 2020 and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
After spending 27 years in political communications with the Republican Party, Setmayer publicly left the GOP in November 2020.
Setmayer was born in 1975 in Queens, New York, but raised in Paramus, a borough of Bergen County in northern New Jersey. She is an only child, raised by a single mom, Deborah, who had been a Broadway dancer. Deborah was 21 and single when Tara was born, and left her career to raise Tara.
Tara's family has been longtime residents of Paramus. Her grandfather, Emil Setmayer, served 40 years with the Paramus Police Department, retiring as captain, and also spent 71 years with the Paramus Company 03 Volunteer Fire Department. She was educated at Paramus High School, a public high school in Bergen County, New Jersey, from which she graduated in 1993, followed by The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she majored in political science with a focus on public policy and journalism.
Setmayer is of mixed heritage: Her mother is of German and Italian descent and her father is of Afro-Guatemalan descent.
In the early 2000s, Setmayer served as a former research fellow and communications specialist for the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education (CURE), a non-profit organization dealing with the impact of social policies on America's inner cities and the poor. She also served as a political trainer for GOPAC, a conservative organization specializing in educating, organizing and training grassroots Republicans intending to run for public office.
For over two years, Setmayer served as a community liaison advocating on a variety of issues including affordable housing and services for the chronically homeless and children in South Florida where she co-founded a faith-based homeless program.