Nadiyah Taylor has been in the early care and education field since 1994, in a variety of roles including preschool teacher, parent educator, and diversity consultant. She is the chair of the early care and education program at Las Positas College in Livermore, California. Her consulting work, The Ripple Effect, focuses on the continuing need for the inclusion of anti-bias principles in early childhood settings and childrearing. Educational equity and social justice are key themes of her work.