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Taylor Le

Creative Director, The San Francisco Standard
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Sausalito, CA, USA

Taylor is the Creative Director at The Standard. She previously led design at The Los Angeles Times, shaping visual experiences across print, digital, events, and social platforms while mentoring a team of 30 art directors. She also worked on branding and design at Medium, AFAR, and Pacific Standard. Taylor is a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Magazine Award winner.


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The Power of Creative Voice
Friday, July 17, 3:45 – 4:05 pm

In “The Power of Creative Voice,” Taylor Le shares how a lifetime of storytelling, reinvention and purpose shaped her into both a creative leader and an advocate for artists. As Creative Director at The San Francisco Standard, she has restructured teams, reshaped culture, and driven visual innovation rooted in empathy and systems thinking. Her career has spanned influential roles at The Los Angeles Times, Pacific Standard, Medium, and AFAR Media, where she built resilient creative communities and elevated visual storytelling. Through personal milestones and professional turning points, Taylor discovered that voice is more than self-expression. It is a bridge between personal narrative and collective possibility. In this talk, she explores how struggle brought clarity, how design can drive change and why artists are essential voices in shaping the future. She invites the audience to reclaim their own creative voice as a source of power, advocacy and lasting impact.

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