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Name
Cy Richardson
Title
Cy Richardson, Senior Vice President, the National Urban League
Bio
Cy Richardson is a Senior Vice President at the National Urban League, and a member of the League’s Executive Leadership Team. In his current role he leads the League’s program design, implementation and evaluation activities, supporting national efforts to create economic and social opportunities and ensure that prosperity is widely shared regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, or geography.
Cy has published numerous reports and articles on a range of economic topics, including housing and urban development policy; he also conducts basic and applied research around the guiding principles and practices of equitable development and is a frequent commentator and blogger on the boosts and blocks to building sustainable wealth in communities of color. His scholarly interests include economic inequality and intergenerational economic mobility. His research has been featured in the nation’s top publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and many others, and he speaks frequently at a broad spectrum of events.
Cy earned a B.A. with honors in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a four-year starter and captain of the nationally-ranked baseball team. He holds graduate degrees in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute and Urban Politics from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. In 2001 Cy received an Advanced Certificate in Urban Policy Analysis from Humboldt University (Berlin) and in 2013 earned an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University. Cy lives in Brooklyn and is a proud husband and father of two girls.
Cy has published numerous reports and articles on a range of economic topics, including housing and urban development policy; he also conducts basic and applied research around the guiding principles and practices of equitable development and is a frequent commentator and blogger on the boosts and blocks to building sustainable wealth in communities of color. His scholarly interests include economic inequality and intergenerational economic mobility. His research has been featured in the nation’s top publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and many others, and he speaks frequently at a broad spectrum of events.
Cy earned a B.A. with honors in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a four-year starter and captain of the nationally-ranked baseball team. He holds graduate degrees in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute and Urban Politics from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. In 2001 Cy received an Advanced Certificate in Urban Policy Analysis from Humboldt University (Berlin) and in 2013 earned an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Georgetown University. Cy lives in Brooklyn and is a proud husband and father of two girls.
