Dedrick Asante-Muhammad

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad is Senior Fellow, Racial Wealth Divide at CFED. As Senior Fellow, Dedricks responsibilities include strengthening CFEDs outreach and partnership with communities of color, as well as strengthening CFEDs racial wealth divide analysis in its work. CFED's Racial Wealth Divide Project will also lead wealth-building projects that will establish best practices and policy recommendations to address racial economic inequality.Dedrick comes to CFED from the NAACP, where he was the Sr. Director of the Economic Department and Executive Director of the Financial Freedom Center. Dedricks past civil rights experience also includes his time at Reverend Al Sharptons National Action Network, where he first worked as the National Crisis Coordinator and then as the National Field Director. Dedrick's professional work in economic equity began at United for a Fair Economy (UFE) where he was coordinator of the Racial Wealth Divide Project. While at UFE, Dedrick co-founded the State of the Dream report and has been a regular co-author of this annual report. Pursuing his work in economic and racial equity, Dedrick went on to the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) where he worked in the Inequality and Common Good Program, under the leadership of Chuck Collins.