Board of Trustees
Taylor Stuckert serves as the CEO of Lead for America (LFA), a national non-profit focused on the activation of local talent through locally rooted service year fellowships to support community-driven solutions nationwide. LFA has built an alumni network of over 400 servant leaders from across the country and currently has members serving in 30 states through the American Connection Corps, which is connecting people to places and possibilities in digitally disconnected communities across America. His leadership is rooted in nearly 20 years of service at the local level in his hometown of Wilmington, OH where he served as the Executive Director of the Clinton County Regional Planning Commission and co-founded the nonprofit Energize Clinton County. There, his innovative approaches to housing, transportation, community and economic development gained international recognition and earned a National Planning Achievement Award from the American Planning Association. Taylor’s service experience undergirded his belief that local people are best positioned to develop durable solutions to their community's most complex challenges. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Bolivia), he holds a Master’s in Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati, bachelor’s degree from Butler University. In addition to serving as a Trustee at Wilmington College, he is a member of the Clinton County Trails Coalition, an advisor to the Ohio State University Swank Program on Rural-Urban Policy, the Small Town and Rural (STAR) division and the Japan-US Interest Group of the American Planning Association. 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 Month Meeting (Ohio Valley and Wilmington Yearly Meeting).