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Maya D. Wiley (born January 2, 1964) is an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. She has served as president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights since May 2022. Wiley served as counsel to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. She chaired the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) from 2016 to 2017.
Maya Wiley (pictured in 2015) became the coalition's president and chief executive officer in 2022. The coalition's name was formally expanded to include human rights in 2010. [ 23 ] By 2012, approximately 200 member organizations had joined the Leadership Conference and tasked the coalition with promoting and protecting the civil and human ...
Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. ... May 3, 2024. A century after the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil Rights Act ushered in a ...
Maya Wiley, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, credited Gupta with juggling “so many issues that are directly affecting people’s lives.” “That’s a ...
2024: Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, on January 6, 2023, a three-judge district court ruled against the State of South Carolina’s 2021 congressional map and concluded that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and intentionally discriminatory in violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The ...
View Article The post The time for progressives to get behind NYC mayoral candidate Maya Wiley is now appeared first on TheGrio. A lot of people call this political season “messy.” I call it a ...
President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; In office January 7, 2021 – May 2, 2022: Preceded by: Vanita Gupta: Succeeded by: Maya Wiley: In office 1996–2016: Succeeded by: Vanita Gupta: Personal details; Born April 22, 1948 (age 76) Washington, D.C., U.S. Education: Howard University Rutgers University, Newark
During the rise of the George Floyd protests last summer in New York City and across the nation, Maya Wiley announced that she would step away from her legal analyst job at MSNBC to explore a run ...