Taylor is a designer, architect, educator, and maker employing design as a tool to proliferate equity in the
built environment.
Taylor Holloway is a designer, architect, educator, and founder of Public Design Agency, an award-winning design studio and social impact consulting firm. Her interdisciplinary practice transforms personal and collective narratives into spaces, artifacts, and processes that cultivate healing and belonging. Over two decades she has developed people- and community-centered design strategies across the fields of architecture, public arts administration, disaster relief, and design education.
A design justice practitioner, she is a founding organizer of the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U. Most recently, she served as Chief Transformation Office at Studio BE New Orleans and as Deputy Director of Prospect New Orleans, where she led teams expanding access to contemporary art in public space across Louisiana.
Taylor is a Master's of Education candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also the 2008 recipient of the Berenice Lapin Fellowship for Architecture, the Wellesley College 2008 Excellence in the Arts Award, the 2013 AIA Martin Roche Travel Fellowship, a 2016 AIA Jason Pettigrew Memorial Scholar, a 2019 Association for Community Design Fellow, and a 2022 Next City Vanguard. She holds a BA from Wellesley College and an M.Arch from the University of Illinois in Chicago.
