- Tamara was honored by a consortium of federal agencies (EPA, CDC, USDA, HUD & USDoE) with the first ever National Healthy Homes Hero award, at the 2011 National Healthy Homes Conference in Denver.
- This same conference awarded her work the “Best Overall Communications Campaign” award at the National Healthy Homes Conference in Nashville in 2014.
- Healthy Child Healthy World chose her as their third Mom On a Mission in October of 2011.
- She was Lifetime Television’s “Woman of the Month” for January 2012
- She was a finalist in the Jewish Community Heroes program of the Jewish Federations of North America.