Full Name
Nikitra Bailey
Position Title
Executive Vice President
Organization/Company Affiliation
National Fair Housing Alliance
Speaker Bio
Nikitra Bailey serves as the executive vice president of the National Fair Housing Alliance® (NFHA™). She leads NFHA’s Public Policy division and provides oversight over Communications and Marketing, Education and Outreach, and Resource Development. Ms. Bailey develops and spearheads visionary, transformational policies, and communications strategies to implement NFHA's mission of eliminating all forms of housing discrimination and ensuring everyone has safe, decent, affordable housing in well-resourced, opportunity-rich communities free from bias. She also provides thought leadership that supports NFHA’s over 170 Member organizations. Her work has advanced fair housing and lending opportunities for millions of people throughout the nation.
Prior to joining NFHA, she served as an executive vice president at the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), a research and policy advocacy organization that seeks to build a fairer and more inclusive financial services marketplace. CRL is an affiliate of one of the nation’s largest community development financial institutions (CDFIs), Self-Help. At CRL, Ms. Bailey advanced national and state public policy reforms creating access to safe and responsible credit on affordable terms for individuals and communities traditionally underserved by the banking system, especially people of color and women. She directed CRL’s mortgage policy advocacy; managed resource development; and served as the principal strategist for coalition partnerships that span civil rights, faith, women, labor, and community advocates throughout the nation. She played a key role in helping to secure passage of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; reforming the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program to equitably serve all small businesses; and securing $10 billion in the American Rescue Plan Act’s Homeowner Assistance Fund to provide relief for homeowners hardest-hit by COVID-19.
Ms. Bailey co-leads the Black Homeownership Collaborative’s work stream on fair housing and consumer protection and co-chairs the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Fair Housing and Lending Task Force. She currently serves on the board of directors of the National Institute of Minority Economic Development, and she was appointed as an inaugural member of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Federal Advisory Committee on Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Housing. The Washingtonian Magazine recognized her as one of the 500 Most Influential People shaping policy in Washington, DC. She served on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Community Advisory Board from 2018-2021. Ms. Bailey is an author of numerous reports and articles on predatory lending and fair housing and a frequent media contributor. She has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress on a range of fair and affordable housing issues and the reform of the Government Sponsored Enterprises.
Ms. Bailey holds a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University
Prior to joining NFHA, she served as an executive vice president at the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), a research and policy advocacy organization that seeks to build a fairer and more inclusive financial services marketplace. CRL is an affiliate of one of the nation’s largest community development financial institutions (CDFIs), Self-Help. At CRL, Ms. Bailey advanced national and state public policy reforms creating access to safe and responsible credit on affordable terms for individuals and communities traditionally underserved by the banking system, especially people of color and women. She directed CRL’s mortgage policy advocacy; managed resource development; and served as the principal strategist for coalition partnerships that span civil rights, faith, women, labor, and community advocates throughout the nation. She played a key role in helping to secure passage of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act; reforming the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program to equitably serve all small businesses; and securing $10 billion in the American Rescue Plan Act’s Homeowner Assistance Fund to provide relief for homeowners hardest-hit by COVID-19.
Ms. Bailey co-leads the Black Homeownership Collaborative’s work stream on fair housing and consumer protection and co-chairs the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Fair Housing and Lending Task Force. She currently serves on the board of directors of the National Institute of Minority Economic Development, and she was appointed as an inaugural member of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Federal Advisory Committee on Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Housing. The Washingtonian Magazine recognized her as one of the 500 Most Influential People shaping policy in Washington, DC. She served on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Community Advisory Board from 2018-2021. Ms. Bailey is an author of numerous reports and articles on predatory lending and fair housing and a frequent media contributor. She has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress on a range of fair and affordable housing issues and the reform of the Government Sponsored Enterprises.
Ms. Bailey holds a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and a B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University
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