Working with you to advance human rights, protect worker dignity, defend rule-of-law, accelerate climate justice, and achieve political and corporate accountability.
I'm Reynolds Taylor — human rights attorney, policy tactician, organization + advocacy strategist, and former finance professional.
Through RT Human Rights & Economic Policy Consulting, I partner with NGOs and movement organizations to advance human rights, protect worker dignity, defend rule-of-law, accelerate climate justice, and achieve political and corporate accountability. As both an attorney and M.B.A., I approach this work with a rare skillset and lens into the challenges and opportunities ahead.
My core expertise is in leveraging legal, policy, regulatory, and investment mechanisms — both domestic and international — to achieve remedy for victims of state and corporate abuse, end impunity where it has long prevailed, and build collective community power. Collaborations are typically focused on strategic advocacy, policy analysis, and legal research — but each also draws on my years of experience managing nonprofit organizations, liaising with boards of directors, orchestrating lobbying and political action campaigns, and building consequential civil-society coalitions.
Read on for more detail on how we can join forces — keeping in mind that each partnership will be uniquely tailored to your organizational and substantive needs — or reach out to schedule a brief introductory call.

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
2025+
RT HUMAN RIGHTS & ECONOMIC POLICY CONSULTING
Lawyer & Policy Consultant
Advancement of human rights, worker dignity, rule-of-law, climate justice, and political and corporate accountability, through collaborative partnerships, strategic advocacy, policy analysis, and legal research.
2024-2025
Labor Rights Attorney
2021-2024
Human Rights Attorney
GLOBAL LABOR JUSTICE
Supply chain, development finance, and capital markets accountability for labor rights violations, human rights abuses, and failures to ensure just transition for workers and migrant populations.
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY LAB
Development of litigation, policy, and regulatory strategies for ending impunity for forced labor, trafficking, and corruption in international supply chains, and shifting corporate incentives throughout the global market.
2018-2021
J.D.
NORTHWESTERN PRITZKER SCHOOL OF LAW
Managing Editor for the Journal of Human Rights; student-attorney with Shriver Center on Poverty Law and the Bluhm Legal Clinic's Environmental Advocacy Center, Center for International Human Rights, and Access to Health Project.
2019-2021
NORTHWESTERN KELLOGG SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
M.B.A. (Finance)
Elected Director of Operations for the Kellogg Impact Ventures investing fund; policy and investments intern for the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation and Impact America Fund (a boutique venture capital firm).
2017-2018
ARABELLA ADVISORS
NGO Strategy & Advocacy Consultant
Board governance, advocacy strategy, and development counsel for a dozen 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations operating across health care, housing, tax policy, education, reproductive rights, and climate infrastructure issue areas.
2013-2015
Senior Financial Analyst
THACKERAY PARTNERS
Due diligence, investment strategy, performance projections, and financing for a $3 billion real estate investment pipeline across the United States; supervision of financial analyst team.
2009-2013
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
B.A. (Sociology; Film Studies)
Summa cum laude, Honors College; selected from 1,300 students as the University's Most Outstanding Transfer Student (2012); accepted to Northwestern's Global Engagement Studies Institute in South Africa (2012).