Taylor Brown

Taylor Brown is an American attorney and government official. She served as an assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York Attorney General's Office. In 2026, she became the first openly transgender person to lead a New York City office or agency when she was appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the inaugural director of the Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs. She is the highest-ranking transgender person to serve in New York City government.

Education Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Carolina Covenant Scholar. She earned a Juris Doctor from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, where she was a Nathaniel E. Gates Scholar. She is the first openly transgender person to lead a New York City government office or agency and the highest-ranking transgender person to serve in the city government.

She serves on the board of the National Trans Bar Association and is an advocate for LGBTQ youth with GLSEN.