Taylor Jennings-Brown Taylor Jennings-Brown is a 2021-2022 Kroc Fellow.
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Taylor Jennings-Brown

Kroc Fellow

Taylor Jennings-Brown is a 2021-2022 Kroc Fellow. She is a thoughtful writer from Durham, North Carolina and is a spring 2021 graduate from the University of South Carolina, where she received her bachelor's degree in mass communications and anthropology.

Her lifelong passion for storytelling and advocacy brought her to journalism through her university's official student magazine, where she began as a writer and worked her way up to managing editor. Although writing is her first love, Jennings-Brown has since become an audio storytelling enthusiast.

A social butterfly in nature and creative at heart, she enjoys laughing with friends or doing arts & crafts in her free time.

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Gen Z is feeling the impacts of high inflation extra hard

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Lisa McNair holds her memoir Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew, recounting growing up in Birmingham, Ala., after her sister Denise and three other Black girls were murdered in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church. Taylor Jennings-Brown/NPR hide caption

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Her sister was killed in the Birmingham church bombing. A new book tells their story

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The Pell Grant has helped 80 million students go to college. Josie Norton for NPR hide caption

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In 50 years, the Pell Grant has helped over 80 million people go to college

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Hair salons have been a safe space for Black women for decades, even through COVID

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