Karen Taylor studied law in Berlin and Lyon and is the political officer for human rights at the Bundestag, where she is responsible for anti- discrimination policy in Germany and for human rights violations in West Africa. At EOTO (Each One Teach One), a community-based empowerment project for black people in Germany, Karen Taylor is responsible for political communication. Taylor is also part of the coordination team working to implement the UN Decade for Africans in Germany and a board member of the European Network against Racism (ENAR), where she is committed to combating anti-black racism at European level. As state chairman of the working group on migration and diversity of the SPD Berlin, Karen Taylor is committed, among other things, to the intercultural opening of the party landscape and has organised the series of events "Frauen.Macht.Vielfalt!“ Taylor is also an expert moderator and speaker at events on topics such as racism in connection with justice and feminism. As an author, she has published texts on racial profiling and the German culture of memory in the journal vorwärts, among others.