Ta Enos is founder and CEO of a regional nonprofit that is helping to revitalize the rural Pennsylvania Wilds region through intentional outdoor recreation development. A fourth-generation native of Warren County, in the Pennsylvania Wilds, Ta has worked on the movement for close to two decades and loves what she does. 

Prior to founding the nonprofit in 2013, Ta served as the PA Wilds Small Business Ombudsman for five years, helping rural entrepreneurs connect to resources and leverage the region’s public lands and growing visitation. Before that, she helped her sister build an outfitting business in the Pennsylvania Wilds.       

Ta has been recognized nationally for being a practitioner on the cutting edge of rural development. She 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 a news reporter and editor in Alaska, writing for the Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Press, Dutch Harbor Fisherman, Bristol Bay Times and other publications, earning writing awards from the Alaska Press Club and the Society for Professional Journalists.

Ta and her husband are raising three boys on sixty-five acres in the PA Wilds.