Gerald Taylor
Template:TOCnestleft Gerald Taylor is a nationally and internationally known organizer, strategic campaign planner, trainer and organizational development expert. For nearly 35 years, he was a national senior organizer of the Industrial Areas Foundation and (for 26 of those years) the IAF’s Southeast Regional Director, retiring from the IAF in 2014. His organizing began in the Civil Rights Movement as a youth leader, eventually being elected as New York State President of the NAACP Youth and College Division at 17 years old. He organized with the National Democratic Party of Alabama, an interracial third political party, in their historic election victories of 1970 and served on the National Trustee Board of the National Urban League during the last years of Whitney Young’s leadership and in the transition to Vernon Jordan. He has developed organizations with leaders in numerous communities in the United States including New York City, Baltimore, Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, and Jackson, Mississippi. Along the way, he has trained thousands of clergy, lay leaders, unions’ staff and leaders, government and private sector institutional leaders over the past forty years. He has lectured and taught at colleges, universities and seminaries, including Duke University, Vanderbilt University and UNC Chapel-Hill on theories of social change and community organizing.[1]
Sponsoring Committee Individuals
Carolina Federation sponsoring committee individuals, November 2019.