Taylor Masamitsu (they/he) is a versatile educator-artist-advocate whose work has appeared in community spaces, nonprofit organizations, and and P-20 classrooms throughout the United States.
Currently, Taylor is the Senior Director of Research and Impact in the Arts Education Department at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. They are also a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Taylor’s developing an interdisciplinary approach to education policy analysis to consider the relationships between education policy, politics, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In his spare time, Taylor operates Creating for Justice, inc., a nonprofit organization that provides community-based services in exchange for donations to anti-racist organizations.
