Maya Wiley, a civil rights attorney and racial justice activist, has been appointed counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Wiley, 50, was most recently president of the Center for Social Inclusion, a nonprofit that advocates for policies addressing racial inequality.
Before founding the center in 2002, Wiley was a senior advisor on race and poverty to the director of U.S. Programs of the Open Society Institute, now known as Open Society Foundations. She has also worked for the American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Department; in the Poverty and Justice Program of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc.; and in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District.
