Candacy Taylor

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About Candacy Taylor

I am an award-winning author, cultural documentarian and the owner of Taylor Made Culture - a company that produces content for books, exhibitions, and multimedia projects that enrich, challenge and inspire new ways to think about culture and identity. An exhibition based on my research will be toured by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The exhibition will travel throughout the United States for three years. My current book,"Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America" is published by Abrams. I was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University under the direction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and my projects have been commissioned and funded by numerous organizations including, The Library of Congress, National Geographic, The American Council of Learned Societies, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Park Service, and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. My work has been featured in over 50 media outlets including Newsweek, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Lenny Letter, The New Yorker, PBS Newshour, BBC, The Wall St. Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian UK, CBC Radio, and on NPR. In 2012, I was one of five people to receive an Archie Green Fellowship from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and the only person to have received the reward twice. HIGHLIGHTS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING AWARD (Green Book) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PRESERVATION GRANT (Green Book) AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES AWARD GRAHAM FOUNDATION AWARD (Green Book Project) ABC/SONY TELEVISION PILOT ORDERED PLAY ADAPTATION Joan Holden (playwright for Nickel & Dimed) PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY- Top 20 Indie List THE NEW YORKER- feature photo essay THE WALL ST. JOURNAL- “Best In” review SOUTHWEST AIRLINES- Exhibit made top 10 list of things to see in the US PHOTOGRAPHER’S FORUM– Cover and feature SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS Library of Congress Botkin Lecture Southern Foodways Symposium UCLA Michigan State University Women's Literary Festival Sarah Lawrence College Brown University Oral History Association Conference Gerontology Conference-Keynote Speaker National Women's Studies Conference California College of the Arts American Society on Aging Conference