Joseph Windham Lecture on Race Relations, Oct. 18

The Alexandria Campus and the Office of DEI present the Joseph Windham Lecture on Race Relations. This year’s lecture will take place on Tuesday, October 18, from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m., in the Bisdorf Building on the Alexandria Campus, Room AA-196. 

This year’s speaker is Maya Wiley, 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 U.S. Attorney’s 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. Wiley 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. Wiley 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). As chair, she led the release of the “hold” on proceedings against Daniel Pantaleo, whose illegal chokehold killed Eric Garner, and she co-chaired the Mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group that authored two major reports on integrating New York City public schools. Wiley has received numerous awards, and has been a public voice for rights, justice and democracy, through written opinion editorials and as a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

NOVA is excited to welcome Maya Wiley to the Alexandria Campus to share on the current state of race relations in the U.S., shedding light on ways community college students can pursue advocacy work for issues important to them.

This event will be held in-person. A recording of the will be made available to the NOVA community and will be shared in the Daily Flyer. For questions or accommodations, please contact Sherrene DeLong (sdelong@nvcc.edu).

Submitted by:
Sherrene DeLong, DEI-Event Coord., SDeLong@nvcc.edu