Taylor Jo Isenberg

About Taylor Jo Isenberg

Taylor Jo Isenberg has spent the last thirteen years building organizations and advocating for ideas that strengthen our democracy and create a political economy that works for the many, not just the few. She is currently the Executive Director of Economic Security Project, an advocacy organization focused on building economic power for all Americans. The playbook – which we call ideas advocacy – is designed to take transformative ideas that are on the margins and bring them into the mainstream of the public debate by provoking the existing conventional wisdom to shift what’s considered possible, legitimizing the ideas by supporting cutting edge research and elevating champions, and winning concrete policy victories for communities. Previous to her role as Executive Director, Taylor Jo Isenberg served as the organization’s Managing Director. As a part of the founding team, she spearheaded the organization’s groundbreaking collaboration with the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), the nation’s first mayor-led guaranteed income pilot, and oversaw the organization’s strategy for turning guaranteed income from an idea into concrete policies – work that’s put over a trillion dollars into the pockets of Americans. She also designed and launched the Anti-Monopoly Fund, which moved over $11 million to a growing set of academics, organizers, and policy thinkers tackling concentrated corporate power and its harms to our economy and democracy. Taylor Jo has also served as Senior Advisor and Vice President at the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank advancing progressive policies. Under her leadership, the Roosevelt Network received the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, recognizing the Institute’s critical efforts to organize an emerging generation committed to reimagining the rules. She’s served on the Advisory Board of SEED and has appeared in The New York Times, Vox, and Inside Philanthropy, among others. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow, Taylor Jo now resides between Brooklyn, NY and Bennington, VT.

Experience

1. Executive Director

   Economic Security Project

   Aug 2019 — Present

Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  B.A.

• The American University in Cairo

  Arabic language, Arab Studies

Skills

• Project Management
• Political Campaigns
• Public Relations
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Social Entrepreneurship
• International Development
• Public Speaking
• Community Organizing
• Program Development
• Event Planning
• Research
• Community Outreach
• Strategic Planning
• Nonprofits
• Strategic Communications
• Change Management
• Qualitative Research
• Non-Profits
• Program Evaluation
• International Relations
• Customer Service
• Strategy
• Volunteer Management
• Policy Analysis
• Politics
• Grassroots Organizing
• Grassroots
• Political Science
• Fundraising
• Public Policy