J. Taylor Calderone, Board Alumni Co-Adviser

Inducted: Loyola College in Maryland – 2006

Taylor is the Director of Alumnae Relations and Special Projects at the Notre Dame School, a Catholic school for girls in New York City. Previous to her work at Notre Dame, she served as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) at Tabor Community Services, a non-profit housing and financial counseling agency in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

She graduated summa cum laude from Loyola College in Maryland (now Loyola University Maryland) and received her BA in English. She holds her MA in English from Lehigh University, where she taught English I and English II—freshman composition courses. As a Teaching Fellow, Taylor worked with her students to coordinate a campus-wide endeavor to bring to Lehigh Paul Rusesabagina, the man who saved 1,268 people by sheltering them inside the Mille Collines Hotel during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. Rusesabagina's story was made into the hit motion picture Hotel Rwanda.

 

In addition to her involvement in education, Taylor's passion is dance. She has taken classes since she was a child and has training in many styles, but she especially enjoys classical ballet.