Reynolds Taylor is a human rights attorney, former finance professional and M.B.A., and passionate activist and organizer. She founded and leads Run on Power (ROP), a nonprofit supporting local and state political candidates running on platforms challenging corporate power, and Power Law & Policy Lab, a nonprofit committed to redesigning the legal architecture governing what a corporation is — and who and what it serves.

Before launching ROP and Power Lab, Reynolds spent several years developing novel legal strategies to combat forced labor, sex trafficking, gender-based violence, environmental crimes, and corruption in supply chains across East and West Africa, parts of the Middle East, and the United States. As an attorney with Corporate Accountability Lab, she spearheaded legislative efforts to prevent deforestation, prohibit labor abuses within U.S. prisons, and erect barriers to the import of sweatshop-produced goods. In 2024, as an attorney with Global Labor Justice, she led the legal campaign to hold bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions accountable for violating internationally recognized labor and human rights — requiring deep partnerships with labor unions around the world, new forms of bargaining, and organized collective action in industries across West Africa, Central Asia, and the Gulf.

In her early career, Reynolds managed a portfolio of nonprofit and political action organizations engaged in healthcare, reproductive justice, climate action, housing, and tax policy. Before this, she led a financial analytics team and managed a $3 billion USD investment pipeline.

Reynolds advises nonprofits, select companies and entrepreneurs, individuals, and other entities on various issues, including whistleblower protection, novel labor and ownership models, and leveraging national and international regulatory frameworks and investment mechanisms to hold corporations liable for wrongdoing.

She writes The Dot, a bi-weekly newsletter about reimagining law and markets and everything they touch. While new, the newsletter’s audience has grown by nearly 800% over the last six months.

Reynolds earned a B.A. in sociology and film/media studies from The University of Oklahoma, a J.D. from Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law (where she served as Managing Editor for the Journal of Human Rights), and an M.B.A. with a major in finance from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

A native Texan and proud ex-Chicagoan, she now lives in Washington, DC with her husband and rescue pup.