Maya Rockeymoore Dr. Maya Rockeymoore is president and CEO of Global Policy Solutions, a Washington, D.C. consulting firm that partners with clients to develop strategic solutions that achieve maximum benefit for people, organizations and communities. Working with non-profit organizations, governmental entities, and socially-conscious corporations, GPS manages grant programs and initiatives funded in excess of $10 million. An adjunct professor at the Women in Politics Institute at American University and a member of the Insight Experts of Color Network , Dr. Rockeymoore has also served as the vice president of research and programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), senior resident scholar at the National Urban League, chief of staff to Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY), professional staff on the House Ways and Means Committee, and CBCF Legislative Fellow in the office of Congressman Melvin Watt (D-NC). Dr. Rockeymoore’s areas of expertise include health, social insurance, income security, education, women’s issues and youth civic participation. She is the author of The Political Action Handbook: A How to Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation and co-editor of Strengthening Community: Social Insurance in a Diverse America. The recipient of many honors, she was named an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow in 2004 and is the recipient of Running Start’s 2007 Young Women to Watch Award. A regular guest on radio and television shows, Dr. Rockeymoore has appeared on NPR, CNN, Black Entertainment Television, ABC World News Tonight, Fox News and C-SPAN. She has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, LA Times, The Boston Globe, Black America Web and the Houston Chronicle, among others.

New Agenda for America: Rethinking Capitalism

To mark the 80th Anniversary of the Great Crash of ‘29, we asked 15 progressive thinkers to write about lessons learned and what lies ahead. Together, their reflections constitute a New Agenda for America — a message of how the ideals of a fair society should apply to the economic and social policies of our time.

Eighty years after the Great Crash, skyrocketing unemployment, rising foreclosure rates, and exploding national debt indicate that our country has failed to learn important lessons from the past.

Wall Street, the federal government and the mainstream media tell us that things are not as bad as they seem. We…

Real health reform belongs where it started: with Social Security

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings takes a look at FDR’s efforts on universal healthcare for insights into today’s debates. Could wellness insurance be on the horizon?

It is perhaps ironic that our country is at the precipice of creating a national healthcare system a full 74 years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt first tried to get universal healthcare passed, as a part of the original Social Security Act of 1935. While many people today aren’t familiar with this important history, FDR’s efforts provide important guidance for today’s healthcare reform debate.

Prominent leaders in the national healthcare debate agree that prevention and wellness need to…