Kirk Anne Taylor
Executive Director
Kirk Anne Taylor joined CAPS as Executive Director in 2022. Ms. Taylor comes to CAPS with more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit management, education, and sustainability. Before joining CAPS, she was the Director of Community Engagement for Ten Strands, overseeing advocacy, communications, strategic planning, and supporting the California Environmental Literacy Initiative – a public-private partnership advancing environmental literacy for California’s 6.2 million public school students.
Ms. Taylor was also the inaugural Executive Director of ChangeScale – a partnership of museums, parks, school districts, and community-based organizations in the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Area. At ChangeScale, she led the partnership from its early incubation to the development of a robust network of more than 50 diverse organizations focused on increasing equitable access to environmental education opportunities. There she also led the establishment of an initiative with school districts to expand access to environmental education for K–12 students.