Nia West-Bey, PhD

Nia West-Bey, PhD, is the executive director of the National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy. She is a community psychologist with expertise in youth development, qualitative and quantitative data interpretation and analysis, and the intersection of psychology, social policy, and program evaluation. Prior to leading the TYP Collaborative, she was CLASP’s director of youth policy. In this role, she led a team that sought to advance a vision for policy and systems change co-created with youth and young adults, ages 16 to 25, that centers safety, healing and well-being, and economic and racial justice. Earlier in her career, Dr. West-Bey co-founded and spent 10 years as executive director of a community-based nonprofit organization offering youth development programming to young people in foster care in Washington, D.C.