He’s not just the co-host of the region’s Muscular Dystrophy Association’s Labor Day Telethon — Taylor himself has MD. When he’s not raising funds to help find a cure, Taylor, 33, is a principal at homeland security consulting firm Catalyst Partners, and serves as a motivational speaker. How did you get involved with the telethon?
I was diagnosed at age 8, and I used to go on telethons as a child. I’d go through my neighborhood and ask my friends for donations. But when I moved out to D.C., I started to get involved more and more. I started doing pro bono advocacy work for the association. They said, ‘With your personality, you could even co-host.’ They liked the idea of someone with MD who could talk about what it’s really like to have the disease.
