Sasha Taylor is a legislative policy advisor and advocate focused on countering honor-based violence, forced and child marriage, visa exploitation, and trafficking in New American (immigrant and refugee communities). Ms. Taylor's work focuses on preventing honor-based violence from research to implementation through legislation. Ms. Taylor is also the author of the first framework legislation on honor-based violence ever drafted in the United States.

 

Ms. Taylor is also a lived experience expert who was forced into an unwanted engagement, a forced legal marriage for visa acquisition, and a forced religious marriage at age 15. She founded her advisory firm in 2021 after spending over a decade at the FBI.

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Ms. Taylor is the chair of Access to Services sub-committee at Virginia's Office of New Americans Advisory Board, co-chair at DC Human Trafficking Taskforce's Policy and Legislation sub-committee, is a trainer and member of the Regional Interdisciplinary Collaborative (The RIC) – a mid-Atlantic collaborative for ending human trafficking and supporting survivors. Ms. Taylor is a member of the Virginia Coalition Against Human Trafficking, and a lifetime member of FBI Association of Intelligence Analysts (FBI AIA).
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Ms. Taylor is also a guest lecturer at The Ohio State University, and conducts capacity building trainings for human trafficking task forces throughout the United States. Ms. Taylor received her bachelors degree in Education from Arizona State University, and her masters degree in Communications from Michigan State University. 

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​For consulting inquiries please e-mail: sasha@realityofadesigirl.com.​

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