With over twenty years of experience, Taylor Strategies & Consulting (TS&C) helps clients navigate the public policy arena. We specialize in public affairs, association management, policy advocacy, and overall project management for regional and national clients and are based in Cheyenne, Wyoming. No matter the issue, TS&C focuses on delivering practical and lasting results, and equipping our clients to grow and lead.

FIRM SPECIALTY

• Public affairs and lobbying
• Regulatory affairs management
• Research, tax and energy specialties
• Political campaign strategies
• Media and community communications
• Political networking and event planning
• Public speaking and ghost writing
• State-wide community networking
• Fundraising
• Association management
• Grassroots advocacy
• Public process navigation
• Publication design for advocacy

• Understanding of the legislative appropriations process

TAG CONTACTS

ERIN TAYLOR has more than twenty years of experience working in the public policy arena at the federal, state and local level.

Prior to forming Taylor Strategies & Consulting in 2014, Taylor served as the Executive Director of the Wyoming Taxpayers Association for eight years. During that time, she successfully advocated for legislation and programs that enhanced businesses throughout the state, based on the view that all businesses should be fairly taxed. She garnered the respect of state and local elected officials with her analytic and unbiased reporting of tax policy.

She was instrumental in educating policy makers on the implications of tax policy and experienced many successes in the legislative area, including increasing Wyoming’s fuel tax, passing a sales and use tax vendor allowance, implementing special district transparency, formulating property tax relief programs, among others.

After the association, Taylor served as statewide campaign manager for US Senator Mike Enzi for the 2014 primary election where she spearheaded a comprehensive county-by-county issue based campaign, and oversaw all aspects of the day-to-day operations, which yielded the Senator his highest win percentage in that office.

Aside from tax policy, building coalitions and managing communications, Taylor also carries years of experience with regulatory issues, both at the national and state level. She served as Wyoming Government Affairs Representative with PacifiCorp (now Rocky Mountain Power), and in Washington DC forming electric transmission pricing policy with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission through the Edison Electric Institute and the Electric Power Supply Association, and finally, managing regulatory affairs for Montana-Dakota Utilities, Co, in Bismarck, ND.

Taylor earned an undergraduate in economics and also her master of science in regulatory and environmental economics from the University of Wyoming. She is also active in her community through Cheyenne Rotary and a number of local service organizations.

Jessie Dafoe is a proud Wyoming native specializing in organizational strategy. Dafoe guides organizations of varying sizes and growth stages through strategic planning, development, and implementation of operational plans. Additionally, Dafoe focuses on governmental affairs work and crafting thoughtful policy solutions for Wyomingites.

Dafoe’s career, which spans more than two decades of working in close partnership with leaders from each of Wyoming’s economic industries, began as an intern in the office of then-Representative Cynthia Lummis (R-WY). Next, Dafoe focused on regulatory issues for the Wyoming Resource Alliance and most recently led Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroom as their Executive Director.

Dafoe, who was raised on her family’s ranch, graduated from the University of Wyoming, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Business and a Master of Business Administration. Dafoe is a 2014 graduate of Leadership Wyoming.