Fairbanks Tall Timbers: Corlis Taylor

The Fairbanks Tall Timber Series was created to honor those who have served the Fairbanks community well. Join accomplished journalist Tom Hewitt either in person or via Zoom as he interviews these stalwart members of our community.

Corlis Taylor is a longtime Alaskan who worked in public health in Bethel and Fairbanks, helping operate one of the first centers to aid domestic violence and sexual assault victims in rural Alaska. She moved to Fairbanks in the early 1990s and worked at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital for the rest of her 40-year health care career while also diving deep into her passion for fiber arts and quilting. Taylor has continued to teach quilting and fiber arts through the Cabin Fever Quilters’ Guild and the Radical Alaskan Garments Society, a group she co-founded in 1991. She has also remained active in helping with the issues she spent her health care career dealing with as a board member for groups such as the Arctic Resource Center for Suicide Prevention and the Center for Safe Alaskans.