Deja Mackey

Director of Education & Training

Deja Mackey (she/her) is the Director of Education & Training at Resilience. She brings a deep commitment to prevention education and strengthening community responses to sexual violence through access and action. In her current role, Deja leads the organization’s education and training initiatives, ensuring that programming is accessible to all Chicagoans, and reflects trauma-informed, survivor-centered, and equity-driven practices.

As Director of Education & Training, Deja oversees the development, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive prevention education and training across Chicago. She supervises all prevention educators, spearheads curriculum development, and cultivates partnerships with schools, community organizations, and institutional stakeholders. Deja works to ensure that trainings are responsive to community needs and grounded in best practices around consent, healthy relationships, bystander intervention, and systemic change around rape culture.

Deja holds a Bachelor of Art in Black Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies from The University of a Missouri – Columbia, a Master of Education in Secondary Social Sciences Education (History) from DePaul University, and a Master of Education in Curriculum & Instruction from The University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign. She brings professional experience in traditional education settings as a former high school history teacher and is dedicated to fostering long-term cultural change around rape culture and sexual assault through education.