Lydia Casmier Anway is the Associate Director of Racial Economic Justice (REJ) at Prosperity Now in Washington, D.C. She provides management to the REJ team and technical oversight across REJ’s portfolio of community asset and wealth-building programs. Lydia and her team work with BIPOC entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders, funders, policymakers, and advocates to leverage emerging programs and services that close the racial wealth divide. This includes capacity building support, technical assistance, executive coaching, and leveraging city-level economic and racial data to shape policy change. 

Lydia has over a decade of experience leading strategic programming in service of building power for marginalized communities. Her previous roles include Program Director at Brandeis University, Graduate Research Fellow at UNCF, and Senior Youth Development Coordinator at Mary’s Center in Washington, D.C. She has an MPP and MBA from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and a BA in Political Science from Howard University.  Lydia spent her Segal Fellowship summer doing research on higher education and racial equity at the United Negro College Fund.