Civil rights activist Maya D. Wiley has been named president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the group said Tuesday. MsReads via washingtonpost
, who oversees the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
She called her new role a “homecoming” of sorts because she has worked for two organizations — the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP legal fund — that are members of the Leadership Conference. Wiley comes from a family dedicated to civil rights; her father, George Wiley, founded the National Welfare Rights Organization. In the early 2000s, she founded the Center for Social Inclusion, which seeks to combat structural racism.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said the Leadership Conference’s selection of Wiley “is a union befitting of her lineage as the daughter of Dr. George Wiley, a champion for poor people.”Henderson cited Wiley’s work on the police review board in New York, pointing to her recommendation in 2017 that the city fire Daniel Pantaleo, an officer whose chokehold led to the 2014 death of, which helped galvanize the Black Lives Matter movement.
“That’s no small feat,” Henderson said. During her service on the review board, he added, Wiley “established a deep understanding of the need for police and criminal justice reform — the need to be incredibly patient and thoughtful.”in the Pantaleo case during her mayoral bid, for not using her tenure to more aggressively pursue misconduct charges against officers.Her efforts to distance herself from the “defund the police” slogan also caused blowback from some left-leaning activists.
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