Regina Malveaux

December 12, 2017
LEAP

“Regina Malveaux is the CEO of the YWCA of Spokane. She began her career as a Legal Advocate at the YWCA of San Diego and previously served as Executive Director of the YWCA of South Hampton Roads. Ms. Malveaux is recognized as a tenacious advocate for women, youth and children. Ms. Malveaux has served on a number of boards aimed at advancing racial justice and economic empowerment including the San Diego NAACP, San Diego Dress for Success, and Second Chance.

Ms. Malveaux holds an undergraduate degree in Social Policy from San Diego State University and a law degree from Howard University School of Law. During law school, she served as both a White House and Congressional Intern, for First Lady Hillary Clinton and then Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, the Honorable Maxine Waters. She has also worked to train a new generation of advocates as an adjunct professor in Political, Women’s and African American studies at La Sierra University, San Diego State University, and at the Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Old Dominion University and is the author of the chapter “”Women and Children First?: How Low Income Women & Children Have Fared Since the War on Poverty”” in 2014’s The War on Poverty: A Retrospective published by Lexington Books.

Ms. Malveaux is the mother of two adult children.”