Hailing from Hempstead, New York, Christian James Terry-Taylor is a genderfluid Black man and summa cum laude graduate of Morehouse College; he studied Sociology, Africana Studies, and Economics, which established a foundation for his public service career.

Christian seeks to utilize policy interventions to curtail gender-based violence against trans and gender nonconforming (TGN) individuals within Black and other minority communities. Christian began this work as an NYC Urban Fellow at the Deputy Mayor’s Office for Public Safety, serving as an intergovernmental affairs (IGA) liaison for the Department of Correction. Subsequently, Christian worked at the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice as an IGA Manager, where he co-led Mayor Adams’ Retail Theft Task Force and analyzed hate crime and criminal-legal legislation. At Wagner, Christian intends to learn program models that curb intra-community violence and to further comprehend how non-criminal-legal institutions intersect with the penal system to impact minority TGN people.