Tara Rynders

Tara Rynders RN, MFA, BSN, BA, is the founder of The Clinic, an arts and play-based theater company that provides workshops and research around burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Rynders has a MFA in Dance and is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist. She is honored to hold the 2022 EY Next Wave Leader, 2021 Oncology Nursing Foundation Lectureship, 2019 Colorado Regional Nightingale Luminary, and the 2019 NOAH Award for Arts in Resiliency. Rynders, recently named a wellness Fulbright Specialist in the Netherlands was published in the July 2022 issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics, Arts-Based Research in Health Care.