Candacy Taylor M.A., is an award-winning photographer, writer and cultural critic with a B.A. in Fine Arts from the San Francisco State University and a Master's Degree in Visual Criticism from the California College of the Arts. Before graduate school, Taylor worked as a member of Local 816 as a scenic artist and set designer for television and film productions. In the commercial and entertainment world, she created visual environments for companies as diverse as Quaker Oats, Beach Blanket Babylon, Hallmark, Java One, Lincoln Mercury, Hyundai and Banana Republic. For almost ten years Taylor has produced award-winning multimedia projects. She is a national speaker for conferences and has received numerous grant awards for her work including two Story Fund grants from The California Council for the Humanities and a San Francisco Arts Commission. Her most recent projects are on beauty shop culture and By The Horns, a documentary on a subculture of women in bull sports. She is also producing a documentary based on her book, Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress.Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle, AARP, The Magazine, BUST, Aging Today, Southwest Airlines, NPR's Weekend America and over 20 others. Website: www.taylormadeculture.comBlog: http://counterculturewaitress.wordpress.com/