Tomeka Hart Wigginton serves as President and CEO of the United Way of the Mid-South, serving eight counties across Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. For almost 30 years, she has worked to improve education outcomes and increase social and economic mobility at the local, state, and national levels. Prior to the United Way, The HarWigg Group, a consulting firm serving nonprofit, public sector, and philanthropy leaders and organizations.

Tomeka has served in multiple roles including managing director and special advisor to Blue Meridian Partners, where she provided leadership on critical business priorities and led innovation efforts. With a focus on supporting comprehensive place-based strategies. Prior to Blue Meridian, she served as a Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, leading education policy and advocacy grantmaking to civil rights and equity organizations. In prior roles she served as VP of Strategic Partnerships at the Southern Education Foundation, VP of African American Community Partnerships for Teach For America, and as the President and CEO of the Memphis Urban League. She is a former middle and high school teacher, and a former labor and employment lawyer.

Hart Wigginton served two terms on the elected school board in Memphis, including a term as Board President. She currently serves as chair of the First Eight Memphis board of directors, and as a member of the boards of the Education Trust, the Memphis Education Fund, the Schott Foundation for Public Education, and the Think Tennessee boards. She is the immediate past chair of the Data Quality Campaign board.

Tomeka is a Public Voices Fellowship on Racial Justice in Early Childhood fellow, an Aspen Institute Rodel-Fellowship in Public Leadership fellow and a Pahara-Aspen Institute Education Fellow, and she is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Tomeka Hart Wigginton holds the Public Leadership Credential from the Harvard Kennedy School; a Certificate in Education Finance from Georgetown University; a J.D. degree from the University of Memphis; an M.B.A. from Kennesaw State University; and a B.S. degree in Education from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Hart Wigginton is married to Dr. Russell Wigginton, President of the National Civil
Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel. Her stepson Ryan is a graduate student at Vanderbilt University.