Kaomi Joy Taylor MPA

Kaomi Joy Taylor MPA offers a distinctive voice on names, meaning, identity, and belonging. As the founder behind the Museum of Names, she explores how names influence culture, connection, and leadership, and why they matter, not only to individuals that hold them, but to family, society, and humanity itself. Kaomi has a particular talent for demonstrating the power and potential of names to build bridges and promote community, whether in the workplace, at home, or in society at large. She's also a creative thinker who loves playing with names - inventing them, collecting them, studying and sharing them with fellow name enthusiasts, who she affectionately calls ‘Namiacs.’ A former national- and state-level executive director of multiple nonprofits and adjunct professor of business et...