Her social impact work meets at the intersection of racial justice and wellness. After almost a decade as a professional boxing and strength trainer, Taylor co-founded ACTIV-ISM, an anti-racism wellness company that amplifies marginalized voices and educates their allies. She has worked professionally as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion educator and led trainings and programs for companies like S
tarbucks, ClassPass, Rumble, Reebok and more. Alongside this work, Taylor has also leveraged her social media platforms to create major campaigns for Nike, Anthropology, Lululemon, Victoria Beckham and others. Career highlights include presenting for the Reebok Human Rights Awards, a feature on the cover of SELF magazine, and co-authoring ACTIV-ATING: Your Vocabulary, a book on having tough conversations about race and racism. Taylor is currently pursuing her master’s degree at Columbia University at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Her thesis focuses on the Eighth Amendment right that protects all from cruel and unusual punishment in America and how that is translated to incarcerated populations, and especially those in solitary confinement, when denied access to outdoor physical activity. Most recently, Taylor became the Assistant Director at Just Ideas, a program at Columbia University that brings together Columbia professors and interns to teach (and be taught by) occupants of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a maximum security detention center. Taylor is also the Course Facilitator for the course Histories of Public Health in Communities of Color: the Built Environment in the 20th Century United States, a class taught inside of Taconic Correctional Facility as part of the The Justice-in-Education Initiative at Columbia University . Taylor utilizes her unique skill set to empower and mobilized those that are most vulnerable as she advocates for lasting change. Her podcast, On the Outside, launched in January 2024.
