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Minister Adam Taylor Minister Adam Taylor

Affiliation: Global Justice and Shiloh Baptist Church
Titles: Executive Director and Associate Minister
Denomination: Baptist

Contact Information:

Progressive Faith Media: Jennifer Mason, 212-300-2072; mason@progressivefaithmedia.com, or
1225 Connecticut Ave. Suite 401
Washington DC, 20036


Summary of Media Experience:

Worked primarily with media around HIV/AIDS and Jubilee debt cancellation campaigning. Experience includes writing sample op-eds for local and campus papers and some television/radio interviews.


Expertise:

HIV/AIDS/global health, global poverty, globalization, international trade, debt cancellation

Bio:

Currently serves as Executive Director of Global Justice, an organization that he co-founded in 2001 to educate, train, and mobilize students around issues of human rights, development, and social justice. Taylor also serves on the Boards of Jubilee U.S.A. Network and Sojourners magazine.

Taylor gained extensive management experience while working at the NYC Department of Housing, Planning and Development (HPD) and the NYC Commission to the United Nations. While At the NYC Commission, he served as a project manager for the Sister to Sister program; coordinated a new partnership between the City of New York and Santo Domingo consisting of a literacy and economic development program. At HPD, Taylor worked on strategic management and financial planning for the Commissioner’s Office to re-structure homeless housing and improve middle-income housing.

Taylor’s organizing experience includes a national education campaign to increase access for students of color to higher education, as President of Harvard NAACP; and a fundraising and advocacy campaign with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka to support Radio Kudirat, a pro-democracy radio broadcast in Nigeria.

Taylor worked in AIDS prevention in Zambia with Africare in 2000. Taylor worked as a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy in 2001. Taylor serves as an Associate Minister at Shiloh Baptist Church.

He received his Masters in Public Policy from the JFK School of Government, Harvard University (2001) and a BA from Emory University with a major in International Studies (1998).