Renaye Manley

Renaye Manley brings strategy, innovation and advocacy to the world of finance and pension funds infusing a lens of racial and gender equity.  She currently serves as Deputy Director of the Service Employees International Strategic Initiatives department.  In this position, she works with pension trustees, investment professionals and union leaders around the engagement of multi-billion-dollar union and public pension funds. She served on the Biden-Harris transition team, working on the financial regulatory team.  She leads SEIU’s “Diversity & Dollars” work, which has led to the adoption of the “Rooney Rule” at seventeen companies, including Facebook and Amazon.  She previously served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s advisory board on Small Business, Agriculture and Labor.  She serves as the advocacy committee co-chair of the Council of Institutional Investors which convenes the largest groups of investors and asset owners in the United States and also serves on the board of the 30% Coalition, an investor coalition dedicated to gender and racial equity on corporate boards. Prior to her job at SEIU, Renaye worked for Interfaith Worker Justice, a community /labour collaboration, coordinating work with national unions and denominations on issues of workplace justice. She has a background as a field organizer, working for years at the AFL-CIO where she focused on field campaigns for political and worker organizing. She is a graduate of Indiana University and has an MBA from Western Governors University.