mwiley25@nul.org

Maya Wiley is a nationally respected civil rights attorney who has litigated cases for the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She has been a program creator in philanthropy, non-profits, government, and higher education and co-founded and led a national policy advocacy organization, the Center for Social Inclusion, now a part of Race Forward, a national policy strategy organization working to end structural racism. She was the first Black woman to serve as counsel to the Office of the Mayor of New York and served as senior vice president for social justice at the New School University. Wiley has received numerous awards and is a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.