Taylor Richardson

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Taylor Richardson also known as Astronaut StarBright on social media is a STEM and neurodivergent advocate, actionist, social entrepreneur, philanthropist, and public speaker. Taylor currently attends Spelman College in Atlanta, GA as a Morgan Stanley scholar majoring in Biology with aspirations to become a scientist and a physician to provide safe health spaces for black and brown communities especially women. She is an internationally known advocate for girls in STEM.

 

Taylor has been featured in local, national, and international news outlets, magazines, and in several books and documentaries. She has written forewords to several books including 2X NYT writer Frederick Joseph’s book Better Than We Found It. She also has her own documentary self entitled Astronaut StarBright: The Story of a STEM advocate that won several film festival awards and featured in Simone Frederick’s The Outsiders streaming on YouTube Original Series and Netflix and Fly Like a Girl on Hulu. She is made strides in Jacksonville through her advocacy work as its youngest Florida Times Union Eve winner, youngest Girls Inc Champion for Girls awardee, inaugural Jacksonville NAACP One to Watch recipient, bestowed 2 city of Jacksonville resolutions, and in July 2024 she received letter from Mayor Deegan acknowledging her contributions to the City of Jacksonville.

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For the last decade Taylor continues to focus shining a light on inclusion and diversity in STEM through her advocacy and philanthropy work. And through that work, the legacy she wants to leave behind is bringing a sisterhood of warriors with her all the way to the stars by disrupting the status quo where girls like her have equal representation at all tables or she will be her own.

Taylor’s philanthropy, service and advocacy work continues to have an incredible trajectory. Her first fundraiser led to the creation of her own book drive, “Taylor’s Take Flight with a Book.” Those effort to date has collected and donated over 30,000 books within and outside of the United States. Taylor has sponsored several full scholarships to send girls to STEM and empowerment camps across the U.S. and has raised over $450,000 for other various initiatives with focus on service, education, health and social justice.

 

Her focus shining a light on inclusion and diversity in STEM through advocacy and philanthropy work. Through that work, the legacy she wants to leave behind is by bringing a sisterhood of warriors with her all the way to the stars by disrupting the status quo where girls like her have equal representation at all tables.