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Mathematics graduate will talk about her role in California’s Legislative Analysts Office
Crystal Taylor ’03, a fiscal and political analyst for California’s Legislative Analysts Office (LAO), will present the lecture, “Policy Making in State Government: What does that mean for someone like me?” at noon Wednesday, Oct. 31, in the Gendebein Room of Skillman Library.
The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Policy Studies program and Career Services. Lunch will be provided.
The LAO provides nonpartisan fiscal and policy advice to California’s Legislature and helps to ensure that the executive branch is implementing legislative policy in a cost efficient and effective manner. Taylor’s area of responsibility is statewide services, which encompasses elections, emergency services/homeland security, fiscal control agencies, and tax administration.
Taylor graduated from Lafayette in 2003 with a degree in mathematics and earned an M.A. in urban and regional planning and an M.P.A. in economics and policy public from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.