Taylor A. Raymond (she/her) is the senior marketing manager at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, where she leads strategic marketing and brand efforts to raise awareness of CDP’s mission to catalyze thoughtful, equitable disaster philanthropy.
With a rich background spanning international relations, advocacy communications, and large-scale event and campaign execution, Taylor brings a global lens and data-informed storytelling approach to her work.
Before joining CDP, Taylor held multiple leadership roles in communications at Namati. As senior officer of strategic communications, she designed and led major advocacy and storytelling campaigns, oversaw digital strategy and content across multiple platforms, and collaborated with field teams in Kenya, Mozambique and Sierra Leone to center local narratives in global discourse. As communications officer, she established processes to streamline content production, refined brand systems, and led site improvements to enhance user experience and message clarity.
Taylor’s public-sector and political experience includes strategic event and logistics leadership for a presidential campaign, media coordination at a party national convention, event advance roles with the Office of the First Lady, and scheduling and press liaison work in the Office of the Mayor of Chicago. She has also provided project management for large-scale fundraising and civic events, including the Special Olympics 50th Anniversary celebration and the inauguration transition for the Mayor of Chicago.
She holds a master’s in international relations from the University of Chicago, with concentrations in international security, conflict studies and human rights, and earned a bachelor’s in political science (minor in anthropology) from Arcadia University, having also studied abroad in Ireland and conducted field research on Russian diaspora in the Baltics and Russia.