Ivy Taylor was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
20 Facts About Ivy Taylor
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Ivy Taylor told Texas Monthly, "I was born in Brooklyn, but I grew up in Queens".
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Ivy Taylor attended Public School 95 in the Jamaica neighborhood.
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Ivy Taylor's parents moved to New York City from Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Ivy Taylor's mother was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.
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Ivy Taylor's parents did not attend college and divorced when she was young.
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Ivy Taylor obtained a bachelor's degree in American Studies in 1992 from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, a master's degree in City and Regional Planning in 1998 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2020.
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Ivy Taylor was initiated into Delta Sigma Theta during her time at Yale.
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In 1997, as a graduate student, Ivy Taylor participated in a ten-week internship with the San Antonio Affordable Housing Association, a coalition of affordable-housing groups.
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In 1999, after graduation, Ivy Taylor returned to San Antonio and began working as the municipal community development coordinator in the Housing and Community Development Department.
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Ivy Taylor served on the City Planning Commission as a commission member from 2006 to 2008.
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Ivy Taylor has served on the board of directors for the Urban Renewal Agency, and Haven for Hope.
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Ivy Taylor served on the board of directors for the Martinez Street Women's Center.
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Ivy Taylor became the president of Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on June 1,2020.
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Ivy Taylor was elected to San Antonio City Council in 2009 to represent District 2 on the east side of the city, and was re-elected to the body in 2011 and 2013.
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Ivy Taylor initially said that she would not run for mayor when her interim term expired in 2015; however, she declared her candidacy for re-election on February 16,2015.
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On November 13,2016, Ivy Taylor officially announced her intention to run for a second full term as mayor.
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Ivy Taylor helped to kill a streetcar system for downtown San Antonio, which many fiscal conservatives had opposed.
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Ivy Taylor received the San Antonio Business Journal's "40 under 40" Rising Star award in 2004.
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Between 2009 and 2020, Ivy Taylor has been a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Public Policy.