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Rev. Adam Russell Taylor is president of Sojourners and author of A More Perfect Union: A New Vision for Building the Beloved Community. Follow him on Twitter @revadamtaylor.
 

Taylor previously led the Faith Initiative at the World Bank Group and served as the vice president in charge of Advocacy at World Vision U.S. and the senior political director at Sojourners. He has also served as the executive director of Global Justice, an organization that educates and mobilizes students around global human rights and economic justice. He was selected for the 2009/2010 class of White House Fellows and served in the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs and Public Engagement. Taylor is a graduate of Emory University, the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. Taylor also serves on the Independent Sector Board, the Global Advisory Board of Tearfund UK, and is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship. Taylor is ordained in the American Baptist Church and the Progressive National Baptist Convention and serves in ministry at the Alfred Street Baptist Church in Alexandria, Va. 

Posts By This Author

Making Trade Just

by Adam Russell Taylor 05-01-2007

Changing the world by changing the rules.

Prophetic Politics in the New South Africa

by Adam Russell Taylor 07-01-2006
Ten years after the formal dismantling of apartheid, economic injustice, HIV/AIDS, and poverty stand in the way of real reconciliation - and present daunting challenges for the South African church.

Ending the 'Silent Tsunami'

by Adam Russell Taylor 07-01-2005
This is a historical moment of unique potential.

A Fitting Challenge

by Adam Russell Taylor 04-01-2005
Millennium Goals offer hope against poverty.

The Devil's in the Details

by Adam Russell Taylor 05-01-2003
Will the AIDS initiative make a difference?