Afua Atta-Mensah
Former Executive Director,
Community Voices Heard

Afua Atta-Mensah is a longtime organizer and advocate who most recently served as executive director at Community Voices Heard, a Black-led grassroots organization that fights for racial and social justice across New York State. Atta-Mensah’s work there has focused on amplifying the voices of New York’s communities through civic engagement, and on creating a more equitable city by advocating for better housing, a stronger social and economic safety net and a more democratic local government. She has fought directly to increase access to affordable and safe housing, for a more equitable healthcare system and to help more women, people of color and other underrepresented New Yorkers pursue and secure leadership positions.

Before joining CVH in 2016, Atta-Mensah was director of litigation for the nonprofit Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project, where she worked to protect public housing and improve conditions for NYCHA tenants. She is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for her work at the International Federation of Women Attorneys (FIDA) providing legal representation for indigent women in Ghana.