Taylor Smith is a destinations and features content developer for Meetings Today, where she started working in May 2022 after graduating summa cum laude from Ball State University as an honors student with a degree in multimedia journalism and a minor in creative writing.

 

Taylor is an Associate Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award Winner and College Media Association Pinnacle Award Winner, has written for St. Louis Magazine and worked as an editorial assistant and apprentice for Aubree Nichols, who has been published in premier publications such as The New York Times, ELLE and The Los Angeles Times.

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Taylor's study of journalism began in 2015 when she began writing for her high school newspaper. Her passion for creative writing sparked when she was 10 in her fifth-grade English class during a poetry lesson on Emily Dickinson. Now, as a destinations and features content developer for Meetings Today, she wishes she could tell her fifth-grade self she made her dreams come true.