🎓GRAD SPOTLIGHT: taylor.allgood
Ever since she was young, Taylor Allgood has loved to see the world.
A graduate of UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, Taylor turned her lifelong curiosity about other people and cultures into an academic passion as a double major in political science and international affairs. Next year she will get her master’s degree in public administration through UC’s 4+1 program, which allows students to earn a graduate degree through just one additional year of classwork.
“I came from a family that loved to travel. We didn’t have the most money, but traveling was a core value for my mother,” she said. “She made sure that we had the opportunity to explore different places.”
Taylor is considering a career with the U.S. State Department or perhaps working for a nongovernmental organization. As an undergraduate, she had the chance to study abroad in Bordeaux, France. For her dual minors, she studied women’s, gender and sexuality studies and French, consid...