{"id":7508,"date":"2016-05-02T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2021-04-24T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T20:14:02","slug":"2016-com-undergraduate-commencement-speaker-andrea-taylor-68","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/2016-com-undergraduate-commencement-speaker-andrea-taylor-68\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 COM undergraduate commencement speaker: Andrea Taylor (&#8217;68)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7556\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2016\/05\/andrea-taylor.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Taylor\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7556\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrea Taylor, 2016 COM Commencement speaker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Andrea L. Taylor<\/strong>, former director, North America Citizenship &amp; Public Affairs, Microsoft Corporation, is a civic leader focused on education, media and philanthropy as the president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.<\/p>\n<p>A native Bostonian, she began her career as a reporter for <em>The Boston Globe<\/em>, was a producer and on-air host for WGBH-TV, and later directed the Ford Foundation&#8217;s global media program, investing in independent production and distribution about a range of contemporary issues. At the Ford Foundation, she oversaw the global distribution of $50 million in grants.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is also a trustee of her alma mater, Boston University, New York Public Radio, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and The Historymakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea L. Taylor, former director, North America Citizenship &amp; Public Affairs, Microsoft Corporation, is a civic leader focused on education,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[962,1],"tags":[1162,1157,192,1160,1156,1159,1155,466,1161,1158],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/7508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28576,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/7508\/revisions\/28576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}