Audrey Taylor
Senior Researcher, Health and Human Rights Program
Human Rights Center
Bio
Audrey Taylor, MDP, RN serves as the Senior Researcher with the Health and Human Rights Program where she applies nearly fifteen years’ experience in healthcare and international development to human rights research and advocacy. Since receiving her Master of Development Practice (MDP) from UC Berkeley in 2016, she has conducted and managed a large portfolio of research in global health, humanitarian response, and sexual and gender-based violence in Uganda, Jordan, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and the United States, partnering with academic, governmental, and non-governmental professionals from countries across Africa and the Middle East, as well as organizations such as the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, and Plan UK, and funders such as the State of California, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM) and the USAID-OFDA. She previously served as a Co-Chair for Human Rights Watch’s Young Professionals Network. As a graduate student, Audrey served as a graduate researcher and intern with Human Rights Watch and the Human Rights Center’s Sexual Violence Program, as well as Program Manager for the Global Adolescent Health Colloquium at UC Berkeley’s Center for Global Public Health. Audrey also holds a B.S. in Nursing summa cum laude, and has worked as a pediatric critical care RN at hospitals such as UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Publications
- “Family And Me (FAM): A New Model of Foster Care for Youth Impacted by Commercial Sexual Exploitation in San Francisco” with Julie Freccero, Sarah Chynoweth, and Justine DeSilva (Human Rights Center, SF SOL, 2022).
- Five lessons on housing for youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation from the Human Rights Center with Julie Freccero (2023).
- “Child Marriage in Humanitarian Crises: Girls and Parents Speak Out” with Julie Freccero (Human Rights Center, Save the Children, and Plan International, 2021).
- “Safer cash in conflict: Exploring protection risks and barriers in cash programming for internally displaced persons in Cameroon and Afghanistan” with Julie Freccero, Joanna Ortega, Zabihullah Buda, Paschal Kum Awah, Alexandra Blackwell, Ricardo Pla Cordero, and Eric Stover (IRRC No. 911, 2019).
- “Toward an End to Child Marriage” with Julie Freccero (Human Rights Center & Save the Children, 2018).