Taylor works as a technical non-proliferation specialist at Argonne National Laboratory’s Nuclear Engineering Division. The article quotes her as saying, “I definitely see the ranks of women engineers growing, especially African-American women, so I think it’s just a matter of time before that trend translates to the national labs.”
Advised by NPRE Prof. Rizwan Uddin, Taylor earned a master’s degree in 2005 and a PhD in 2010. She received a bachelor’s in industrial engineering from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla.
Taylor went on in the article to say, “I think that women of my generation have been encouraged more to go into science and engineering. I encourage others who really want to do science and engineering to think of the national labs as one of the premier places to be. Argonne is such a big organization; you could spend your whole career here and never get bored. There is always a new project, and the field is big enough so that you can constantly do new projects within a single organization.”