Taylor Carnevale’s work spans state policy advocacy and hands-on capacity-building with communities and regions, translating priorities into action through funding, financing, and governance tools. At California Forward, she focuses on the fiscal implications of climate change for public institutions and the economy. Previously, Taylor served as a Climate Finance Associate with California IBank, the State of California’s “green bank”, where she supported the development and administration of financing tools to accelerate the deployment of climate technologies statewide. Prior, Taylor was a Senior Climate Resilience Planner at the California Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, 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, and land-use planning goals through the development of the Climate Resilience Plan Alignment Toolkit, grant funding opportunities, and Administration-wide climate adaptation strategies. Taylor is an alumnus of the California State University Capital Fellows Program. She is currently pursuing an MBA at the University of California Los Angeles Anderson School of Business. She holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Economics from Gonzaga University and graduate certificates in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy from Yale University and Applied Policy and Government from California State University – Sacramento. Her past experiences span the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and a range of regulatory and policy issues. These experiences include community organizing for the economic mobility of mothers and caregivers in Brussels, crafting innovative federal government relations strategies for infrastructure projects in Washington, D.C., collaborating with non-profits and labor unions on issue-based campaigns in Los Angeles, and evaluating the public health and climate resilience impacts of school design decisions in Spokane, WA.