Dr. D

Be the change you want to see in the world!

Dr. Darius D. Taylor (Dr. D) is a strategist, change agent, innovator, and advocate for a more equitable and just society that produces valuable, cumulative, and collective impact for the brilliant, creative, and culturally vibrant peoples. Black, Indigenous, and Latinx humans have historically been robbed of their light, and they deserve to shine bright as their most whole and truest selves. He sets his hope towards those oppressed with lack and scarcity receiving healing that produces better life outcomes breaking financial ceilings and social class barriers recompense of the blood, sweat and tears accumulated over generations of imperialism and colonization, exceeding the prayers of their ancestors.

His experiences in measurement, evaluation, and research dates back about 15 years including academic, applied learning, and career opportunities spanning various topics of social and behavioral health, epidemiology, education, criminal justice, organizational capacity, and institutional effectiveness. Dr. D leads Healing Harvest Strategies with a compassionate heart, strong mind, and unique zeal that sets them apart from traditional research and evaluation firms. His notable honors and awards include: the Harvard Strategic Data Project Higher Education Fellowship Alumnus, Truman State University Echo 25 Award - Top 25 Alumni Under 40, McNair Scholars Program Alumnus, and the Mission Fund Grant Award to implement: The Wrong Answer Project.

Dr. D grew up in the greater Chicagoland area. His world view started from the impoverished ‘hood’ of a Black and Brown community limited by a mindset of lack due to intangible access and racist barriers to life success. As he came of age in maturity and scholarship, he took notice of the impact that the systems of society have on Black, Indigenous, and Immigrant people, not only in America, but globally. His critical socio-epidemiologic and psychometric praxis unveils levers for social disenfranchisement advocating for measurement justice. His creative and social justice lens enables him to lead work ethically: thinking beyond people labeled from quantification but rather as complex, relational, amalgamations of independence, inheritance, race-, cultural- and place-based epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and hermeneutics.