Belle Taylor-McGhee

Belle Taylor-McGhee is Vice President for JLM Management Group, a multi-disciplinary consulting firm specializing in strategic communications, media and public relations, community outreach, and public engagement for private, public, and nonprofit entities. She is also a national leader in women’s reproductive health and justice, a public speaker and freelance journalist. In 2010, Ms. Taylor-McGhee reported from Tanzania and Uganda, Africa on the high rate of maternal mortality and how communities and governments address the problem. In a three-part series published in the 2010 spring, summer and fall issues of Ms. Magazine, Ms. Taylor-McGhee reported on the challenge in sub-Saharan Africa to reduce maternal mortality by 75 percent. In 2012, she wrote about the high rates of Black maternal mortality in the U.S., published on 12/14/12 in Women’s eNews. Her reporting earned her a 2013 California Endowment Health Reporting Fellowship with the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. More recently, her op-ed on the passing of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was published in the San Francisco Chronicle (9/21/20). And in the 2022 fall issue of Ms. Magazine, Ms. Taylor-McGhee reported on the challenges doctors across the U.S. face to provide abortion care in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

Ms. Taylor-McGhee is an experienced executive director and communications professional – having run several nonprofit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than a decade, including the Pacific Institute for Women’s Health (PIWH) where she oversaw the merger of PIWH with Pharmacy Access Partnership, a center of the Oakland-based Public Health Institute. Additionally, Ms. Taylor-McGhee served as executive director of the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women for the City and County – appointed by former San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr.

In March 2012, the late San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee appointed Ms. Taylor-McGhee to serve a four-year term on the Health Commission for the City and County of San Francisco, the governing body for San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco General and Laguna Honda hospitals, Community Public and Mental Health, Emergency Medical Services, and other key city functions. Subsequently, in 2016, Mayor Lee appointed Ms. Taylor-McGhee to serve a four-year term on the San Francisco Film Commission, which promotes San Francisco in film and digital media. And in May 2019, San Francisco Mayor London Breed reappointed Ms. Taylor-McGhee for a second four-year term on the San Francisco Film Commission.

Ms. Taylor-McGhee is a former television news investigative reporter with more than a dozen years of broadcast journalism experience in Seattle, Tampa/St. Petersburg, and Alabama markets. She holds a B.A. degree in broadcasting and journalism from the University of Alabama. She completed the 2004 “Women and Power: Leadership in a New World” Executive Education Program at the Harvard Kennedy School.