After a service trip to Ethiopia at the age of 17, Taylor has had a heart for creating international community and finding solutions to poverty. A Bay Area native and graduate of UC Santa Cruz, Taylor spent three years in public health, promoting vaccine usage in Accra, Ghana, as well as at home with the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She found that many problems with inadequate access to healthcare could be solved through economic empowerment, and jumped at the chance to serve as a Kiva Fellow, first in Washington, D.C. and then in Nairobi, Kenya. After connecting with Kiva’s tremendous impact in the field, Taylor is thrilled to be able to support the community that makes it all possible: Kiva lenders. In her spare time, Taylor teaches swim lessons to kids and tries to be near a body of water as much as possible.