Center for Social Inclusion Names New President

CSI's co-founder and executive director Maya Wiley will lead the organization’s work highlighting how race still matters in our society.

New York — Jan. 17

The board of directors of the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI), a national policy strategy organization that works to transform structural racial inequity into structural fairness and inclusion, announced Maya Wiley as its president. Ten years ago, Wiley co-founded CSI and has since served as its executive director.

In her enhanced role, Wiley will lead the organization’s work highlighting how race still matters in our society. CSI has spent the last decade working with communities of color to develop transformative solutions that work to solve national problems. In this election year, the work of CSI has become even more critical as the subject of race and its policy implications continues to confound leaders.

A graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Law School, Wiley has been an advocate for racial justice throughout her career. She has worked as a civil rights attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and as a senior adviser on Race and Poverty at the Open Society Institute.

Wiley serves as chairman of the board of directors of the Tides Network. She has appeared in numerous news stories, interviews and political discussions on outlets such as the Washington Post, the Associated Press, MSNBC and HuffingtonPost.com.

Source: The Center for Social Inclusion