Moderator - Taylor Willingham

Taylor Willingham has her own consulting firm, Austin-Pacific Training Company, which offers training and consulting services for non-profits, including moderating services, grant-writing, program development, and public relations. She teaches a distance education course on Change Management for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate Library and Information Sciences program. Taylor serves on the national faculty for the Kettering Foundation and is a board member for the National Issues Forums Institute. She is currently developing forums for the Kettering Foundation to determine how Americans view Russia.

Over the past ten years, she has taught at several Public Policy Institutes, including the University of California at Davis, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Charleston, West Virginia and several other universities. She has been on the faculty for the International Deliberative Democracy Workshop, a week-long course on deliberative democracy offered to journalists, representatives of non-governmental organizations, foundation program officers and concerned citizens from such countries as Croatia, Tajikistan, Russia, Colombia, and other countries with emerging democracies. In May, Taylor traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia where she was an invited speaker at a conference on national projects of public libraries.