Anita Taylor is professor emerita of communication and a member of the gender and women studies faculty at George Mason University.
Taylor was born in Kansas during the Dust Bowl and went on to become very active in research focusing on women in education.
Anita Taylor was born in southern Kansas, near Caldwell, during the Dust Bowl.
She later attended the University of Missouri, where she obtained her Ph.D in Rhetoric and Public Address.
Taylor has taught or worked in administration at the university level for more than 45 years.