{"671647":{"#nid":"671647","#data":{"type":"event","title":"2024 MLK Lecture Featuring Maya Wiley","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin us for the annual MLK Lecture featuring Maya Wiley,\u0026nbsp;lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. Given the social and political challenges that characterize our contemporary global communities, Maya\u0026nbsp;will\u0026nbsp;share her thoughts and ideas as to how we may achieve the ideals espoused by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\u0027s \u0022Beloved Community.\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EAbout Maya Wiley\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMaya Wiley is the president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund. A nationally respected civil rights attorney, Wiley has been a litigator at the ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., and the US Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York. She has been a program creator in philanthropy, non-profits, government, and higher education. She helped create a criminal justice program for a major foundation in South Africa.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWiley co-founded and led a national policy advocacy organization, the Center for Social Inclusion, now a part of Race Forward, a national policy strategy organization working to end structural racism. She became the first Black woman to be Counsel to a New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, where she worked to protect and expand civil rights, Minority and Women-Owned Business contracts and broadband access.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWiley became a Senior Vice President for Social Justice at the New School University, where she also founded the Digital Equity Laboratory. While there, she chaired the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). 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