Maya Wiley is the Founder and Director of the Center for Social Inclusion, a national policy advocacy organization working to dismantle structural racism. Ms. Wiley graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1989 and has more than fifteen years of experience as civil rights attorney and policy advocate. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1986. She has litigated, lobbied the U.S. Congress and developed programs to transform structural racism in the U.S. and in South Africa. Ms. Wiley was a senior advisor on race and poverty to the Director of U.S. Programs of the Open Society Institute, and helped develop and implement the Open Society Foundation. She has served on the Boards of the Institute on Race and Poverty and Human Rights Watch. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the Tides Network Board and as an advisory board member of Families United for Racial and Economic Equality.
