Jalaya Liles Dunn

Jalaya Liles Dunn is the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Learning for Justice program. She leads a team of anti-bias education specialists who help teachers and schools nurture inclusive, equitable classrooms and educate students to be active participants in a diverse democracy.

At the Children’s Defense Fund, Liles Dunn’s leadership led to the training of 5,000 young leaders of color for action in their home communities; she managed national partnerships that provided high-quality summer and after-school programming for 13,000 children annually; developed cohorts of educators to institute culturally responsive and sustainable teaching models in their local schools.