As budget officer in the executive branch of the state’s Franchise Tax Board, Taylor leads a team of 13 as they coordinate the budget for the department that oversees millions of tax forms and monies that pour in from individuals and businesses. She majored in mathematics at Lafayette, a ...
Read moreAs budget officer in the executive branch of the state’s Franchise Tax Board, Taylor leads a team of 13 as they coordinate the budget for the department that oversees millions of tax forms and monies that pour in from individuals and businesses. She majored in mathematics at Lafayette, a discipline largely devoid of African-American women. After hearing a speaker joke about the arduous graduate economics track at Princeton University, Taylor took that challenge to another level by earning simultaneous masters’ degrees (economics & public policy and urban & regional planning, both 2006). Taylor and her group negotiated a deal with the governor’s fiscal officers that substituted budget allocations for unfilled positions with those of workers facing layoffs, saving 300 jobs.
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