Department of Education

Hometown: Philadelphia, PA    
Education: Gettysburg College, BA in Africana Studies, 2011; University of Notre Dame, MA in Educational Leadership, 2023    

Troy Taylor is a MAT student in the social studies cohort at Brown. He started his career in education by assistant teaching at a charter school in West Harlem. He transitioned to Catholic education with the Archdiocese of New York during the 2017-2018 school year. He began teaching fourth grade in East Harlem, and after completing his second year, he transitioned to middle school social studies. During his fifth and sixth years of teaching, Troy began and completed his master’s degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Notre Dame, completing virtual classes during the year and spending three summers on campus in South Bend as a graduate student. Troy has finished his seventh year at Mount Carmel-Holy Rosary School in New York City, where he worked to prepare his middle school students for high school and beyond. Troy is excited to hone his craft and grow in his profession by learning from the outstanding people at Brown and utilizing narratives from people of underrepresented communities within his social studies classroom to add to the complex, yet diverse history of the United States and beyond.