As a Project Manager at California Forward, Taylor Carnevale supports the organization’s strategic planning and program development initiatives.

Taylor’s work focuses on supporting California’s communities in bolstering their access to resources and solutions that are key to strengthening their climate resilience. Most recently, Taylor served as a Climate Finance Associate with California IBank, a green banking entity for the State of California. In this role, Taylor supported the development of public and private partnerships and innovative financing mechanisms to increase investments and accelerate the development of clean energy.

Prior to her time in climate finance, Taylor was a Senior Climate Resilience Planner at the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, where she managed the development and implementation of California’s Extreme Heat Action Plan. Over her tenure at the Office, she advanced  California’s climate, community resilience, and land-use planning goals through the development of the Climate Resilience Plan Alignment Toolkit, grant funding opportunities, and Administration-wide approaches to climate adaptation.

Taylor is an alumnus of the California State University Capital Fellows Program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Economics from Gonzaga University and a graduate certificate in Applied Policy and Government from California State University – Sacramento, and is currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy from Yale University.