Taylor Masamitsu (they/he) is a versatile educator, artist, advocate, and scholar whose work has appeared in community spaces, nonprofit organizations, and and P-20 classrooms throughout the United States, France, Denmark, and South Korea.
Currently, Taylor is the Senior Director of Education Research and Impact in the Social Impact at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. As an independent scholar, Taylor has developed an interdisciplinary approach to education policy analysis to help scholars, policymakers, analysts, and advocates consider the relationships between education policy, politics, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In their spare time, Taylor operates Creating for Justice, inc., a nonprofit organization that provides community-based services in exchange for donations to anti-racist organizations.