Wayne Taliaferro
Strategy Director
Wayne Taliaferro leads a grantmaking portfolio focused on enhancing student success at two- and four-year colleges. He previously supported a portfolio focused on affordability.
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Remapping higher ed: Here’s where innovation and equity are already taking root
Aug. 14, 2025
Some of America’s most vital engines of post-high school learning and opportunity are overlooked and underfunded. Historically Black Community Colleges (HBCCs) and Predominantly Black Community Colleges (PBCCs) play an outsized role in connecting people to learning, credentials, and careers, espec
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Supporting adult students of color with flexibility, relationships, and empowerment
Feb. 3, 2025
Three years ago, Lumina Foundation launched the REACH Collaborative with a very clear and specific goal: to increase the number of Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Native American adults with quality credentials and degrees. Alongside our partners, we welcomed more than 100 community colleges in six
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Prioritizing adult learners of color makes education better for all of us
Nov. 7, 2023
Over the last two years, Lumina has supported the REACH Collaborative, which stands for Racial Equity for Adult Credentials in Higher Education and works with community colleges to help adult students of color attain associate degrees and other credentials.
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It’s time to write a new chapter for historically Black and predominantly Black community colleges
June 27, 2023
It’s time to rewrite the “do more with less” narrative that has for too long dominated historically Black and predominantly Black community colleges (HBCCs and PBCCs)—an often overlooked yet resilient segment.
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Community colleges in six states join national effort to support adult students of color
Sept. 22, 2021
Education and training after high school, long known to be a vehicle for economic mobility, will play a pivotal role in our recovery, but only if that promise is just as true for communities of color. Systematically, however, that has not been the case for Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Native America
