Peggy Taylor

Peggy Taylor is a writer, musician and creative development specialist, and is co-founder of Partners for Youth Empowerment (PYE), a program of Commonweal since 2022. Together with Charlie Murphy, she developed the Creative Empowerment Model (now Community Empowerment Model), a process for building creative, heart-centered learning communities with youth and adults from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Peggy is co-author of Chop Wood, Carry Water: A Guide to Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in Everyday Life that sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. She is co-founder of Power of Hope, a creativity-based youth program in the Pacific Northwest and co-founder of Hollyhock, a learning center in British Columbia.