Sonia Huntley

Biography: Huntley is an association industry veteran with nearly 30 years membership engagement, marketing, fundraising and customer service experience. As senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, Huntley is responsible for heightening ULI’s overall focus on DEI, including significantly increasing the representation of under-represented groups within ULI’s membership, staff and leadership. Before working at ULI, Huntley worked for the Division of University Relations at the University of Maryland, where she was Director of Membership and Marketing for the Alumni Association. At the university she developed strategies leading to increased retention rates and executed the launch of the associations’ lifetime member recognition wall. During her tenure at the university, she also worked for the Annual Fund where she served as the Director of Emerging Constituent Philanthropy responsible for DEI focused philanthropic engagement. Huntley is a native Washingtonian who resides in Maryland, where she actively serves in her church as a ministry leader and teacher, in the local community on her local Board of Elections and Education Committee, and as a high school mentor. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and an MBA from the University of Maryland Global Campus.