Taylor Parker is program associate for Born This Way Foundation, supporting the organization’s programming and partnerships including #BeKind21 and Channel Kindness. They have been part of the Foundation since 2017, when they received its Channel Kindness Award in Indianapolis, and have since been contributed to the Channel Kindness program, including being a featured author of Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community. Previously, Parker was an advisor for Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis’s (IUPUI) Alternative Breaks program, a youth delegate for the Youth United Nations General Assembly, and an inaugural member of Indy Maven’s editorial board. They graduated with their master’s degree in philanthropic studies from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and have a bachelor’s degree in philanthropic studies from IUPUI.