Taylor Thompson - Staff - Obama Presidency Oral History

Editorial Supervisor Oral History Master of Arts Fellow, 2020-2021

Taylor Thompson

Editorial Supervisor for the Obama Presidency Oral History from 2021 to 2022, and former Oral History Master of Arts Fellow from 2020 to 2021.

Taylor W. Thompson is a doctoral student at Yale University in American Studies and African American Studies and a Dean’s Emerging Scholar. She works to develop research at the intersection of Economic History and Black Feminist Theory.

Taylor earned her master’s degree in Oral History at Columbia University where her thesis unfolded into a public, online oral history, and speculative archive. The project developed Black Feminist listening practices for engaging with the oral histories of mutual aid organizers as they spoke about the types of futures they are working to produce through their organizing.

Taylor graduated from Barnard College, where she majored in Economics & Social History and minored in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.