[7][8] On August 12, 1973, his body was found floating in the bay off the shore of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, after a three-day search.

[9][10] Wiley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Dartmouth College in 1986[11] and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.

[14] Before being appointed counsel to Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014, she worked for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Open Society Institute.

[16] She also founded and served as president of the Center for Social Inclusion, a national policy strategy organization dedicated to dismantling structural racism.

[17][15][18][19] Wiley has taught at The New School, where she founded the Digital Equity Laboratory,[20] and appeared on MSNBC as a political and legal analyst.

[31][32] In 2023, she represented the Leadership Conference at a meeting hosted by Vice President Kamala Harris with labor and rights groups to discuss threats from artificial intelligence (AI),[33] and as a panelist at the U.S. Senate's inaugural AI Insight Forum, hosted by majority leader Chuck Schumer.