Candacy Taylor is an author, photographer, and an award-winning cultural documentarian.
An adaptation of Overground Railroad for young adult readers won the Carter G. Woodson Book Award in 2023.
[6] Taylor has documented the architecture of buildings listed in The Negro Motorist Green Book.
[7] Taylor was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University[8] under the direction of Henry Louis Gates Jr. She curated The Negro Motorist Green Book, a 3,500-square-foot exhibition that has toured 13 US museums as part of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)[9] from 2020 to 2025, including the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum.
[citation needed] She turned her master's degree thesis at the California College of the Arts into Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress, that featured women 50 and older who had waitressed for up to 60 years.