Maya M. Rockeymoore

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore leads Global Policy Solutions, a Washington, DC-based strategic social change firm that helps make policy work for people, communities and the environment. She is also the founder of GlobalPolicy.tv, a web-based public affairs platform that explores important issues related to public policy, politics, and popular culture.

Maya’s expertise includes health, social insurance, income security, education, women’s issues and youth civic participation. She is board chair of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and serves on the board of the National Association of Counties. Maya is also a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Maya is co-editor of Strengthening Community: Social Insurance in a Diverse America and author of The Political Action Handbook: A How to Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation. She received a Running Start’s Young Women to Watch Award and served as an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow.

A regular guest on radio and television, Maya has appeared on NPR, CNN, Black Entertainment Television, ABC World News Tonight, Fox News, Al Jazeera and C-SPAN. She has also provided commentary for coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle and other prominent national news sources.

A former adjunct professor in the Women in Politics Institute at American University, Maya has also served as the vice president of Research and Programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), senior resident scholar at the National Urban League, chief of staff to Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY), professional staff on the House Ways and Means Committee, and as a CBCF legislative fellow in the office of Congressman Melvin Watt (D-NC).