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I build teams and lead organizations in research strategy, design, and implementation, focusing in particular on financial services and emerging technology.I'm an anthropologist and ethnographer with expertise in money, technology, and consumer and cooperative finance. I have experience growing and guiding creative, cross-sector, public-facing collaborations in industry, academia, and nonprofits. I'm also a market researcher, consultant, writer, and speaker with a track record of helping organizations navigate uncertainty, build capacity, and grow with people-first strategies.I am the Senior Director of Market Insights & Advisory Services at the Filene Research Institute, an independent, not-for-profit think tank focused on credit unions. In that capacity, I lead the organization's growing custom market research and consulting business. I previously led the original research arm of Filene, including supervising the organization's publication pipeline and partnerships with leading academics, financial services providers, and nonprofit organizations.I received my PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, where I also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Anthropology and a Research Assistant at the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. I'm a former Gates Cambridge Scholar and current Editor at Large (and former Editor in Chief) of the Journal of Cultural Economy.You can read more about me and my work here: taylornelms.net

Listed skills include Cultural Anthropology, Academic Writing, Research Design, Higher Education, and 40 others.