TAMARA WARREN is a writer, entrepreneur, and cultural producer whose multimedia journalism has reached millions of people over the past three decades.

Tamara is the CEO and founder of Le Car, an inclusive, automotive educational platform and a 2019 Techstars company. Tamara has written for over 160 publications including The New York Times, Town and Country, Elle, Vox, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Car and Driver, Motor Trend, AutoWeek, Vibe, and the Detroit Free Press. She is the former transportation editor and senior transportation reporter at The Verge. Tamara co-hosted the acclaimed Vox Media podcast Land of the Giants: The Tesla Shock Wave. 

As an investigator of car culture, Tamara has test driven over 2000 cars, interviewed hundreds of industry executives, and written about automotive design, transportation innovation, and classic car collections. Tamara is a juror and former US Director for the World Car of the Year and a Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year juror.

Tamara has reported extensively about design, contemporary art, music, and technology. She has written profiles of Francis Ford Coppola, Erykah Badu, Deborah Harry, Bill Ford, Wynton Marsalis, Missy Elliott, Tim Russert, former Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, Andre Leon Talley, John Mellencamp, Dee Rees, and Terry Bradshaw.

Tamara’s essays have appeared in Definition: The Art & Design of Hip Hop (Harper Collins) and Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Bloomsbury.)  She edited the 2024 artist monograph Lee Quinones: Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond (Damiani.) She has appeared as a guest on ABC World News Tonight, CBS, CNBC, Cheddar, PBS News Hour, The History Channel, and narrated Malcolm Gladwell’s documentary feature Autonomy.

Tamara is a graduate of The New School’s MFA Creative Writing program, and served as a teaching assistant in the Riggio Honors Program. She earned her BA at James Madison College at Michigan State University. Before moving to New York, Tamara was active in the Detroit techno scene in the late ‘90s, where she produced live events and managed album releases for independent record labels. The Detroit native lives in New York with the artist Lee Quiñones, and their children.