Carole Ann Taylor is a business entrepreneur, civic leader, and professional performer. She is also the longest-serving board member on the board of Viernes Culturales, one of Miami’s monthly arts festivals.

Taylor was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, where she started taking music lessons as a child and grew up singing in church choirs, the daughter of a Baptist minister. Her father was a civil rights activist; her mother an active community volunteer.

Carole Ann was present, in Miami, in 1972, with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug, at The Betsy Hotel during the 1972 Democratic Convention as part of the founding brain trust for what later became the National Organization for Women. And she is an accomplished jazz singer, who performed with the greats, before delaying a performing career to dedicate mid-life to politics, business, and policy.

Carole Ann is also founder of Cultures To Go.