Candace Moore, Esq., is Senior Strategic Advisor at Race Forward. She provides direct leadership to the organization’s Place-Based Strategies, which focuses on bridging the work of local community and public institution stakeholders to advance racially equitable results. Moore brings executive government, legal practice, and community-based advocacy experience to this role.

Moore joined Race Forward after serving over four years as the City of Chicago’s first Chief Equity Officer and Senior Advisor to Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and Mayor Brandon Johnson. Throughout her tenure, Moore drove institutional change processes that resulted in the codification of Chicago’s annual budget equity process, the development and publication of 25 department Racial Equity Action Plans, and the creation of Chicago’s first annual equity progress report. Prior to this, Moore served as senior staff attorney for education equity at the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights where she litigated matters challenging racial discriminatory education policies and practices and partnered with community-led coalitions on statewide reform efforts.

Moore is a proud graduate of Loyola University Chicago’s undergraduate program (B.A. and B.S.) and School of Law (J.D.).