Tataboline “Ta” Enos is the Founder and CEO of the Pennsylvania Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, a nationally-recognized nonprofit that is helping to revitalize rural Pennsylvania through intentional place-based tourism and outdoor recreation development. Her two decades of work in the PA Wilds have helped grow the region’s tourism industry into a $1.9 billion economy that supports hundreds of small businesses and makers. Ta is also the author of Proudly Made: A Story of Reinvention in the Big Woods and Small Towns of the Pennsylvania Wilds (Catamount Press, 2025), which captures the rise of the PA Wilds movement and how one of America’s most rural regions – and its leader – reinvented themselves through grit, creativity and community.

Ta is a storyteller and builder rooted in the Pennsylvania Wilds. She believes in helping communities, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs see the value in their place and connect their work to larger systems to thrive in ways that honor both tradition and innovation. Ta’s work is grounded in resilience, sustainability, and financial accountability, and guided by practical, collaborative approaches. Ta aims to create lasting impact by showing what’s possible when people believe in where they’re from and invest in it together.

Ta’s work has been featured in interviews with C-SPAN, The Daily Yonder, Brookings Institute, Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group, and many other outlets, highlighting its national relevance.

Ta has a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Public Communications from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Prior to moving home to Pennsylvania in 2006, she spent ten years as an award-winning news reporter and editor in Alaska, writing for the Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Press, Dutch Harbor Fisherman, Bristol Bay Times, Frontiersman and other publications. Her memoir, Proudly Made, earned a Silver Nonfiction Book Award in August 2025 from the Nonfiction Authors Association, who called it “exceptional” and “very much worth the read.”

Ta and her husband are raising three boys on 65 acres in the Pennsylvania Wilds.