In our inaugural episode of The Lonergan Institute Podcast, Director Jonathan Heaps speaks with Taylor Black, Director of AI & Venture Ecosystems in the Office of the CTO at Microsoft. Taylor studied Lonergan with (former Seton Hall Toth-Lonergan Professor) Michael Stebbins at Gonzaga University and then went to Boston College for an M.A. in Philosophy to learn more. He also earned a J.D. from Boston College Law, but his tech side-hustles led him, little by little, back to Seattle, WA and into the offices at Microsoft. Taylor shares how his study of Lonergan and his wide-ranging interests as a young person prepared him to wear many exciting hats working for one of the world's tech giants.
The Lonergan Institute Podcast is a production of Seton Hall's Bernard J. Lonergan Institute.
Intro and outro music is "Track 14," from Ghosts II, by Nine Inch Nails, used under a Creative Commons License.
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