Taylor Hickerson Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado, United States

• Identifies and fosters relationships with members of the General Assembly, the Governor’s Office, and key staff members.
• Analyzes proposed legislation to determine potential impact in order to develop client specific legislative strategies to support, protect and advance the organizations we represent.
• Builds coalitions of other lobbyist, interest groups, organizations and individuals with common goals to provide a broad-spectrum approach to supporting or opposing legislation.

Denver, Colorado

• Responsible for comprehensive legislative and budgetary analysis.
• Coordinates and schedules meetings between legislators, lobbyist, clients and stakeholders.
• Tracks and analyzes bills based on client impact and advises firm’s lobbyist accordingly.
• Manages the firms internal budgeting.

• Worked 80+ hrs/week on the Tier One race of Rep. Brittany Pettersen for Colorado State Senate in conjunction with the overlapping State House races of Rep. Chris Kennedy (HD 23), Monica Duran (HD 24), Lisa Cutter (HD.
• Synthesized various candidates’ stories and platforms to articulate community specific pitches to get candidates elected.

Colorado Capitol

• Demonstrated an affinity for constituent services, community outreach and ability to navigate Colorado Politics by aiding Senate Minority Leader Leroy Garcia (SD 3) during the 2018 Regular Legislative Session.
• Duties included monitoring bill progression, fielding constituent concerns/requests, researching and developing talking points, crafting social media posts, speech writing, managing the Senator’s schedule and other.

• Strengthened donor and community engagement through the large-scale events for the University of Colorado.