Taylor Moore is a program specialist for Press Forward Chicago, housed at The Chicago Community Trust.
Press Forward Chicago is a new initiative seeking to support Chicago’s community media ecosystem—and also part of a national initiative to bring new resources to local media.
Most recently, Taylor was an associate program manager for the International Women’s Media Foundation, where she led a grant program that disbursed more than $230,000 a year to women and nonbinary journalists of all nationalities; a mentorship program for underrepresented journalists and a prestigious fellowship in collaboration with The Boston Globe, The New York Times and MIT’s Center for International Studies.
Born in China, she grew up in Orlando, Florida, and graduated from the University of Central Florida.