Cynthia Taylor

About Cynthia Taylor

Cynthia Taylor provides administrative support for twenty-five Harris faculty, including placing textbook orders, preparing course materials for classes, scheduling rooms for meetings, assisting with guest speakers, making travel arrangements, and more. She also provides administrative support for the Public Policy and Economics (PPE) Workshop and processes all reimbursements of Harris faculty expenses through the University’s GEMS system.

Cynthia served as office manager for an exhibit company in downtown Chicago for nearly ten years. She joined the University of Chicago in 1994 in the Office of Central Development during a major campaign, where she provided administrative support to the Corporate Relations team. She moved to Harris Public Policy as part of the External Relations (Development) staff in 1996 and served as administrative assistant to the director. Cynthia then became Executive Assistant to the Dean and worked with three deans at Harris over the course of eleven years. She provided support as a student services specialist for four years in the Dean of Students Office at Harris Public Policy. Before returning to Harris in 2017, Cynthia provided administrative support to the Development—Planned Giving team at The Salvation Army’s Chicago Metropolitan Divisional Headquarters for three years.

Cynthia majored in psychology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.