Lori Taylor

Lori Taylor is the Education Specialist at The Silk Road Project, an organization founded in 1998 by Yo-Yo Ma to promote innovation and learning through the arts. Prior to joining the Silk Road Project, Lori served as Project Director for the Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston. Lori helped forge ASP, one of the largest professional theater companies in New England, and directed and facilitated ASP’s Incarcerated Youth at Play program, community programs, artist residence programs, and summer teacher institute with Salem State University. Before working at ASP, Lori directed the Teacher Residency Program at The Met in Providence, Rhode Island, a teacher training program that targets young adults from urban communities who aspire to be teachers. Lori worked for nine years at the Cambridge School of Weston where she taught history, was Dean of Faculty and founded The Shakespeare Ensemble. She was a teaching assistant to Ted Sizer at Brown University where she received her M.A.T. and a personal assistant to legendary cartoonist HerBlock at The Washington Post. Lori also served as curriculum director at Exploration Summer Program which served over 800 high school students in a residential summer program at Wellesley College.