Listen to Support it, WNYC. You may know my next guest, Maya Wiley, if so, is probably because she ran in the

Democratic primary for mayor of New York in 2021 or has been a legal analyst on MS NBC.

Some of you may know she chaired the city's civilian complaint review board,

the agency that hears complaints about NYPD actions from New Yorkers who feel

they've been wrong retreated by them.

That was under Mayor DeBlaseo. She was also

DeBlazio's chief counsel for part of his administration. She these days she chairs the leadership

conference on civil and human rights and now Meyer Wiley has a book, a memoir called Remember You

Are Wiley.

It's her personal story, obviously, including about her father, a well-known civil rights leader in his day but who also

died tragically when Maya was young and about her work in politics and activism on issues

important to her as a grown-up.

Maya, thanks for coming on.

Congratulations on the book and welcome back to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me, Brian.

It's a real pleasure to be with you.

Why do you write a memoir now?

Well, that's such a good question.

And let me start by, you know, there's no, in a way this was a very long journey.

I had planned to write a book about social movements

after I left City Hall, actually, and before I ran from Mayor,

because we had seen a time when we had the fight for the $15 minimum wage where we had times up,

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