Honorees

Excellence in Advocacy

Maya Wiley
President & CEO
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund

Maya Wiley is the President and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund — a coalition of more than 240 national organizations working to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all people in the United States. A nationally respected civil rights attorney and racial justice advocate, Wiley has been a leading voice on democracy, equity, and social justice. She has served in senior roles across government, philanthropy, higher education, and the nonprofit sector, including as the first Black woman to serve as Counsel to a New York City mayor. Wiley previously ran for Mayor of New York City in 2021 and has been a
litigator at the ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense Fund. She is a former legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and the author of the memoir Remember You Are A Wiley.

Excellence in the Law

Anne Haley
Managing Assistant City Attorney
Outside Counsel Oversight Division Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office

Anne Haley graduated cum laude from Brown University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cognitive Science. Anne proceeded to Stanford Law School where she was an editor for The Stanford Law Review and served on the steering committee of the East Palo Alto Community Law Project, graduating in 1987. She began her career at the entertainment law firm of Wyman Bautzer Kuchel & Silbert, where she was a litigator until joining the masterful Johnnie L. Cochran to assist in the formation of his law firm’s entertainment division. After stints as legal consultant on the nationally syndicated legal talk show, “Jones & Jury,” and on the editing team of the Rulings column at the legal newspaper, The Daily Journal, Anne was invited to be a “visiting scholar” at Australia’s Bond University. She spent a semester there lecturing on alternative dispute resolution, her uncle, Alex Haley’s, novel, Roots, and on race, politics and American law. Since 2001, Anne has overseen the City of Los Angeles’ $30 Million outside counsel budget as a Managing Assistant City Attorney. During her time with the City, Anne also earned a mediator certification with the Office’s Dispute Resolution Program, advised the Reparations Advisory Commission, serves on the City Attorney’s Equity Panel, and is the current President of the Association of Black City Attorneys. With retirement from her legal career just a year away, Anne is excitedly embracing a next chapter to be highlighted by an immersion in all things creative, with an emphasis on contributing to the legacy she proudly wears as the fifth great granddaughter of Kunta Kinte. Anne is currently working on a memoir, a humorist novel, and a children’s book.

Excellence in Community Service

Jackie Broxton
President & CEO
Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation

Jackie Broxton, a proud Los Angeles native, has devoted her life to strengthening her community and expanding opportunities for current and former foster youth. After two decades of service as wedding director at First African Methodist Episcopal Church and 17 years leading major gifts and planned giving at Hillsides, a foster care and mental health services nonprofit, in 2013, she launched the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation (BMCF), transforming it from a grassroots effort to uplift foster youth into a thriving 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Under Broxton’s leadership, BMCF has since awarded more than $700,000 in scholarships to current and former foster youth and supported countless individuals through mentorship, workshops, housing support, and more. In 2025, Broxton was honored as a PBS SoCal Local Hero, and in 2026, she received commendations from Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna, District Attorney Nathan Hochman, City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, California State Treasurer Fiona Ma, and California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond for her outstanding service to the foster care community.

A former Pasadena human relations commissioner, Broxton also champions Black history through advancing the legacy of Biddy Mason, a formerly enslaved woman who became one of LA’s first Black entrepreneurs and humanitarians. Her efforts have helped place BMCF as one of the few verified West Coast sites on the National Park Service’s Network to Freedom Underground Railroad map.

Beyond her professional life, Jackie is the mother of Felicia Martin Hill and a proud grandmother (“Nana”) to Isaiah and Christian, who inspire her vision of a Los Angeles where every child can thrive.