Meet the

New York State NAACP

Leadership

"Never Going Back!"

President's Message
President's Message

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L. Joy Williams
President. NAACP New York State Conference
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We’ve been using Untitled to kick start every new project and can’t imagine working without it.

Katherine Moss

Head of Design, Catalog

Meet the team leading the fight in NY

Karen Blanding
1st Vice President
Lead engineering teams at Figma, Pitch, and Protocol Labs.
Claire Theobalds
Secretary
Former frontend dev for Linear, Coinbase, and Postscript.
Anthony Ellis
Assistant Secretary
Former frontend dev for Linear, Coinbase, and Postscript.
Lottie Tann
Treasurer
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Hilda Rodgers
Assistant Treasurer
Founding design team at Figma. Former Pleo, Stripe, and Tile.
Christopher Alexander
Executive Director
Former PM for Linear, Lambda School, and On Deck.
Liz Mitchell
Chief of Staff
Lead user research for Slack. Contractor for Netflix and Udacity.
Sarissa Phillips-Singletary
Executive Assistant
Lead CX at Wealthsimple. Former PagerDuty and Sqreen.

Meet our State Chairs

Meet our state committee chairs fighting for justice in key areas of focus
Claudia Sweeney
Civic Engagement
Orlando Diggs
Climate Justice
Dr. Divine Pryor
Criminal Justice
Garry Johnson
Economic Development
Francesca Mesiah
Chair, Health
Gloria Benfield
Chair, Membership
Leroy Gadsen
Chair, Religous Affairs
Octavius Moore
Chair, Technology
Myles Hollingsworth
Chair, Youth and College