Her research interests include professional competence, lifelong learning, continuing professional development, and continuing education, and she publishes extensively in these areas. Dr. Taylor chairs the Continuing Education Committee for the APA, and serves on the APA’s Section for the Advancement of Women’s HERstory Task Force, Division 17’s Awards and Recognition Committee, the Education Directorate’s Individual Development Plan, and the Presidential Initiative on Citizen Psychologists. From 2013-2015, she was invited to attend APA’s Education Leadership Conference; at the end of each conference, she lobbied members of Congress to advocate for mental healthcare needs and the reduction of graduate student debt, and was awarded the 2017 Cynthia D. Belar Education Advocacy Distinguished Service Award.