Taylor Holloway is a belonging designer, architect, educator, and social impact strategist employing design as a tool to proliferate equity in the built environment.
Taylor Holloway is a belonging designer, architect, educator, and social impact strategist. Her multicultural identity informs an interdisciplinary practice that develops equity-centered experiences, fostering healing, belonging, and collective imagination. Through her nonprofit consultancy and design studio, Public Design Agency, she specializes in creative problem-solving at the intersection of the built environment and public art, collaborating with schools, communities, youth, and mission-driven organizations. 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 Officer 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.
