If the state of Illinois raises a newly designed flag in the year 2025, the decision and design concept will be a product of the work of the Illinois Flag Commission, which has Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Tandra Taylor, PhD, as one its 22 appointed members.
Taylor is an assistant professor in the Department of History and SIUE’s interim director of the Institute for Community Justice and Racial Equity (ICJRE) at the Southwestern Illinois Justice and Workforce D...