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Niesha Taylor

Director of Career Readiness
NACE
Montclair, New Jersey, United States

Niesha Taylor, Ph.D., is NACE’s first Director of Career Readiness. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge that is aligned with advancing NACE’s mission critical career readiness strategies, programs, and services. Her career is centered around equitable and inclusive educational and industry experiences for students, which supports NACE's mission to achieve equitable employment outcomes for all.
Dr. Taylor also brings with her a deep commitment to educational and labor market equity. She earned her Master's in Education from the New School for Social Research and taught Spanish in NYC public high schools. She then completed her Ph.D. in linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Taylor spent much of her career working in higher education within the City University of New York system where she became an avid student of and advocate for systems change focused on racial and social justice.
In 2015, Niesha joined LaGuardia Community College in Academic Affairs working on campus-wide strategic planning, assessment, and a number federal grant projects. In 2017, she joined Guttman Community College and served as their Dean for Academic Innovation and Career Success. It was at Guttman that she began to focus her work more intentionally on the career learning space. Most recently, Dr. Taylor served as the senior director for career pathways at the New York Jobs CEO Council, a nonprofit organization led by the CEOs of 30+ of the largest employers in New York whose goal is to provide access to living wage jobs for 100,000 New Yorkers from under-resourced communities.

She has published in the areas of system change and equity in higher education, innovative models for career development in the curriculum, and faculty professional development around career in the curriculum.

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