Kimá Joy Taylor

Dr. Kimá Joy Taylor is the founder of Anka Consulting LLC, a healthcare consulting company. A pediatrician, Kimá has served in a myriad of national and local roles including patient care provider, legislative assistant for Senator Sarbanes, and Deputy Health Commissioner of Baltimore City, always capitalizing on strategic opportunities to not only expand access to care, but to mobilize diverse stakeholders and populations to achieve this goal. Her most recent role was as the National Drug Addiction Treatment and Harm Reduction Program Officer for the Open Society Foundations. Currently, Kimá is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center, a board member for Children’s International Summer Villages, and a member of the Board of Directors for Community Catalyst. Kimá received her BA in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and MD from Brown University and her MPH in Health Policy from Harvard University.

Kimá joined us for our virtual Roundtable convening “Examining Justice Reform and the Social Contract in the United States: Implications for Justice Policy and Practice.”