Taylor Molina
Taylor Molina is a UNC graduate originally from the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut). Prior to being the director, Taylor took a gap year through GGYF herself where she co-taught English in Ecuador with a local English teacher. She also took a bridge year where she was a conservation educator at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, worked with a belonging consultant, and did a month long NOLS sailing course in Mexico. She has work experience with local non-profits all the way up to corporate Walmart, the Fortune 1. Through it all Taylor has found her three north stars which are education, sustainability, and belonging efforts. She cares deeply about investing in people and loves being able to do so in this role to positively impact people’s lives just as this program did for her.
Interns
Amber Grant
Amber Grant is from Salem, Massachusetts and spent five years near Pinehurst, North Carolina before attending UNC. She took a gap year through the Global Gap Year Fellowship in 2021-2022. During her gap year, Amber traveled much of the Western United States. Amber volunteered on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, and at an elderly recreation center in Yankton, South Dakota. At UNC, Amber studies biology with aspirations to attend a graduate program in genetic counseling. Amber is passionate about social advocacy and diversity, especially as it pertains to STEM.
Liam Railsback
Liam is a sophomore from High Point, North Carolina. During his gap year, he spent nine months in Rabat, Morocco where he had three service placements. He worked at a community center where he helped with youth and environmental programs. He was also an assistant English teacher at an afterschool center, and a member of a youth media and development collective. In his free time, he enjoyed walking by the ocean, surfing, singing at open mic nights, and exploring new neighborhoods. At UNC, Liam studies Global Studies, Arabic, and Spanish. He is a member of the Arabic Debate Club, Mutakalimeen Arabic Conversation Club, and Tarpeggios Mixed-voice A Capella group. He is passionate about engaging with a diverse range of students through GGYF so that they can have transformative experiences abroad like he did.
He is a Global Office Intern for the 2025-26 school year.
Lucy Miller
Lucy Miller is a 2022-2023 Global Gap Year Fellow studying Political Science, Public Policy, and Social and Economic Justice. During her gap year, she worked with the ACLU of Northern California in San Francisco, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights of individuals guaranteed by the US Constitution through litigation and advocacy. During the second half of her gap year, she worked with an organic farm and hurricane resiliency center in Vieques, Puerto Rico, addressing the diverse needs of community members, from food security to power grid concerns. At Carolina, Lucy is involved with the Carolina Center for Public Service, Blank Canvas, an on-campus dance company, and Sigma Rho Lambda, UNC’s only Jewish-interest sorority. Her favorite part of working with the Global Office is getting to watch Global Gap Year Fellows grow over their gap years.