Peggy Taylor

Unleashing the Creative Potential in Youth--and Adults

Join TNS host Michael Lerner for a conversation with Peggy Taylor, a social entrepreneur known for her work integrating creativity into youth development and group facilitation. Peggy provides accessible arts-based methods for adding life and depth to any program—for youth or adults—and she talks about how her organization PYE: Partners for Youth Empowerment is igniting the creative spark in youth in nine countries.

Peggy Taylor

Peggy is a social entrepreneur and creativity specialist, known for creative approaches to youth development and group facilitation. She is co-founder and director of training at PYE: Partners for Youth Empowerment, and co-founder of Power of Hope and Young Women Empowered — arts/empowerment programs for youth in the Greater Seattle area. Her new book, written with PYE co-founder Charlie Murphy, Catch the Fire: An Art-Full Guide to Unleashing the Creative Power of Youth, Adults, and Communities is available on her website.

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