Board of Trustees
Taylor Stuckert, AICP, serves as the Executive Director, American Connection Corps (ACC), a program of Lead for America. ACC is a fast-growing, national AmeriCorps program whose corps members are leveraging the promise of digital technologies to meaningfully connect the people and places they serve to opportunities that advance prosperity and alleviate social and economic inequities. Prior to joining Lead for America, Taylor spent a decade as Executive Director of the Clinton County Regional Planning Commission and was the Executive Director of the Clinton County Land Reutilization Corporation. He co-founded Energize Clinton County (ECC), a non-profit organization whose work, in collaboration with the CCRPC, was awarded the 2013 National Planning Achievement Award for Innovation in Economic Planning and Development by the American Planning Association. In addition to serving as a Trustee of Wilmington College, he is a member of the advisory council of the Ohio State University Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy, the Small Town and Rural (STAR) division and Japan-US Interest Group of the American Planning Association, and the Clinton County Trails Coalition. Taylor holds a Master of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati and a BA in Philosophy from Butler University and is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) having served in Bolivia. Taylor is an 8th generation Clinton Countian, a descendant of a Quaker lineage dating back more than three centuries and is an active member of Campus Friends Monthly Meeting (Ohio Valley and Wilmington Yearly Meeting).