Wiley, a Brooklyn resident and lawyer, has worked for civil rights and progressive groups pre-de Blasio. The daughter of civil rights icon George Wiley, she has held leadership posts with the NAACP and George Soros Open Society Institute. She also founded the Center for Social Inclusion.
tampedes, a reference to a term an angry senator had used to refer to pro-welfare demonstrators, most of whom were women of color. Early National Welfare Rights Organization leaders such as George Wiley preferred to frame welfare rights issues in economic terms, rather than as womens issues. Yet t
aid Richard. G. Hatcher, the mayor of Gary, Indiana. George Wiley, the director of the National Welfare Rights Organization, argued that before they started proposing new policy solutions, environmentalists had to deal initially with the problem of racism in the United States of America.