Taylor Aline Hourigan

Taylor Hourigan is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. She specializes in Rhetoric and Political Culture. Taylor earned her B.A. in Communication Studies from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she was a trained facilitator with the Center for Public Deliberation. Her research interests revolve around political protest and activism, specifically as carried out by young and minor-aged activists. Taylor is interested in the ways in which power, age, gender, and race intersect in the discourses of and about these activists.