Naama Tamir was born and raised in the city of Rehovot in Israel and moved to NY in 2000 after her mandatory IDF service. Naama studied Philosophy and Psychology at Hunter college while moonlighting in the hospitality industry. In 2011 along with her bother-partner Assaf Tamir, they opened Lighthouse restaurant in South Williamsburg Brooklyn.
Naama is a producer for the Umami Food and Art Festival, chair of sustainability practices and green initiatives for BaBar (bar & restaurant alliance), and Founder to the No Free Lunch sustainability platform Institute of Public Knowledge at NYU. Naama also is a guest speaker at the Institute of Culinary Education, NYU, and The New School as well as a Fair Kitchens leader which is a global movement of chefs supporting chefs to improve the kitchen culture.