Michèle Taylor

Michèle Taylor is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council from 2022 to 2025. She previously served as a board member of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and was a founding board member and vice chair of President Joe Biden’s Super PAC, Unite The Country. Ambassador Taylor currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of the Practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Early life and education Taylor was born in Palo Alto, California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mills College and Master of Arts in mathematics from Boston University.

Career Political involvement In 2012, Taylor joined the Democratic National Committee. She served as vice chair of the National Finance Committee until 2016. Taylor co-founded and served as vice chair of the pro-Biden Super PAC, Unite The Country. Following the general election in November 2020, Taylor founded and worked as chair/CEO of Battleground Georgia. Additionally, she joined the Anti-Defamation League’s Southeastern board, a role she held until 2017.

In 2018, she and her husband chaired the Center’s Power to Inspire event where Joe Biden was honored and served as the keynote speaker.

Diplomatic career On October 21, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Taylor to be the US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council. Hearings on her nomination were held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 14, 2021. The committee reported her nomination favorably on January 12, 2022. On February 17, 2022, the U.S. Senate confirmed Taylor by voice vote. She assumed office on February 22, 2022.

Community involvement Taylor has held leadership positions for human rights organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, Battleground Georgia, the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault,

Taylor has been a board member, a course director, and a lead instructor with North Carolina’s Outward Bound program since 2004.

Since 2010, Taylor has served as the treasurer of the Atlanta Midtown Improvement District board.

Taylor has served in several leadership roles with the board of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

Taylor is Jewish and lives in Atlanta with her husband, Kenneth Taylor. They have two children. Taylor is also a part-time resident of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.