Posts Tagged ‘Maya Wiley’
Maya Wiley Featured in Uptown Magazine
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012CSI co-founder and President Maya Wiley was featured in Uptown Magazine yesterday. Click here to read the article.
Some excerpts:
HOW YOU BROKE IN TO THE BUSINESS: As a long-time racial justice advocate, I saw a need for a policy strategy organization that looked for long-term solutions to big problems, in and with communities of color.
WORKING ON CURRENTLY: We have been pushing policies to ensure that communities of color get affordable, reliable high-speed Internet service, support to participate in renewable energy opportunities, and more and better public transit that helps connect them to jobs, health care, and other opportunities. We are also working with local partners on communications strategies to support more investment in this nation’s greatest asset: its people.
REFLECTIONS: Hometown: Washington, D.C. * First job: A federal judicial clerkship with the Hon. James T. Giles, Federal District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania * Advice she would …
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CSI DIRECTOR MAYA WILEY IN WASHINGTON POST
Friday, October 21st, 2011(originally published in The Washington Post on 10/20/2011)
What Obama could learn from Clinton and Johnson on racial inequities
By Maya Wiley
I remember when Sen. Barack Obama confronted race in America in an eloquent and powerful 2008 speech, promising to work for a “more equal, more free, more caring and more prosperous America.” He pledged to take on “the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through.” Sadly, Obama is falling short of the president who accomplished the most for communities of color since Lincoln: white Southerner Lyndon Johnson. He is also falling short of another white, Southern president who pursued a national dialogue on race: Bill Clinton.
History shows that when presidents confront racial inequity, America sees vast improvements. President Johnson pushed for passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Black voter registration rates in …
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JOIN US IN NYC FOR PUBLIC CONVERSATION ON RACE AND DEMOCRACY
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011A message from CSI founder and Executive Director Maya Wiley:
In one year, CSI will be celebrating its 10 year anniversary. In honor of this special occasion, we are launching a series of events and projects celebrating nearly a decade of making transformative ideas for racial inclusion happen.
I want to invite you to the first public event of our series:
Race to Democracy – 2012 and Beyond
On Nov 14th, I will be featured in a public conversation about race and democracy in 2012 and beyond. The conversation will be led by Gara LaMarche, former President of Atlantic Philanthropies and Senior Fellow at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU.
This event could not be timelier.
As many of you know, the economic recession affecting all of us is a depression for many communities of color. In fact, we are experiencing the biggest …
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WEBINAR: MESSAGING RACE TO WIN POLICY REFORM WITH MAYA WILEY AND DREW WESTEN
Thursday, August 25th, 2011Can we talk about race in upcoming policy debates? With the right communications strategies we can.
The Center for Social Inclusion, a national policy strategy organization, has worked with Westen Strategies, LLC, the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, and others since 2007 to create communications strategies on race to win policy reform we all need. This webinar will share the results of CSI and Westen Strategies’ collaboration on multimedia message development and testing that shows how to effectively remove the race wedge from policy discussions and build more support for progressive policies.
Presenters Maya Wiley and noted political psychologist and founder of Westen Strategies, LLC, will share the results of message testing focused on health care reform and financial reform – two critical reform policy debates. They will offer lessons learned and apply them to communications strategies proven effective with swing voters. This webinar will also …
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MAYA WILEY ON THE RACIAL OPPORTUNITY GAP
Friday, July 29th, 2011Originally published in What’s Possible: The Tides Blog
The recession that was supposed to have ended in 2009 has become a depression for many communities of color. The Pew Research Center’s astounding report “Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks, Hispanics” is the most recent to draw this conclusion. Consider it’s findings. The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households. From 2005 to 2009, inflation-adjusted median wealth fell by 66% among Hispanic households and 53% among black households, compared with just 16% among white households. This is the biggest racial wealth divide this country has seen in the past 25 years. This wasn’t the first news story to highlight the problem. Just a few weeks ago, Jesse Washington’s Associated Press article on the shrinking Black middle class was carried in every major newspaper in the country. …
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