Founder, The Electorette
JEN
TAYLOR-
SKINNER
Podcaster. Essayist. Speaker.
Womanist political voice.
80K+Social media following
6.5MMonthly views
2017Founded
300+Episodes
Podcaster. Essayist. Speaker.
Womanist political voice.
Jennifer Taylor-Skinner was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and trained as a classical pianist at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she also studied creative writing under David Lehman and Josip Novakovich.
She spent 18 years at Microsoft as an Operations Program Manager and Release Manager — working across MSN, MSN International, and multiple technical teams, managing high-stakes systems and large-scale digital operations before pivoting to political media. In 2017, she founded The Electorette — now the longest-running women-led feminist political podcast in the country, named Best Political Podcast by Teen Vogue, Parade, Marie Claire, and Apple Podcasts. The Electorette covered the 2019 State of the Union Media Row by invitation of Congresswoman Maxine Waters, where Jen interviewed politicians including Kathy Hochul, Barbara Lee, and Val Demings.
She is a URL Media Partner and a MacArthur Foundation-funded journalist through URL Media — a womanist political voice at the intersection of technology, policy, and civic power.
From keynote stages to intimate convenings, Jen brings the analytical rigor and womanist perspective that built The Electorette — with the warmth and presence that makes an audience lean in and stay there.
Keynotes · Panels · Moderation · Corporate DEI · University Engagements
The longest-running women-led feminist political podcast in the country. Every episode features the historians, organizers, congresswomen, lawyers, and authors actually shaping this moment.
Jennifer came back to writing the way many people return to what they love most — sideways, through a door left ajar by someone else. Years of interviewing writers on The Electorette — Tressie McMillan Cottom, Bassey Ikpi, Kate Manne, Summer Brennan — rekindled something. The pandemic gave her time. The result was A Remarkable Girl — a collection that braids historical events and social criticism with her own experiences of alienation, rejection, and loneliness, threading personal narrative through recovered histories of Black women from the 19th century to today, tracing the generational echoes of marginalization, resilience, and the unmet desire to belong.
Her essays have appeared in The Nation, River Teeth, Southern Humanities Review, Litro Magazine, DAME Magazine, and Today.com. She trained in piano performance at the Cincinnati Conservatory — a connection that shows through in the writing.