Haley is currently the Director of Education and Community Engagement for Georgia Equality where she leads efforts to ensure nondiscrimination legislation and policies related to employment, housing, public accommodations, law enforcement, safe schools, access to health care, education and voter registration access; her work helps ensure these areas are inclusive of transgender and gender variant individuals and communities. She also works to build relationships with businesses and corporate environments that may have little or no LGBT background and experiences throughout the state of Georgia. 

Haley was the first African-American Transgender person hired by the Georgia House of Representatives assigned to four Republicans and three Democrats. She was later appointed to the City of Atlanta Human Relations Commission by Atlanta City Council President Ceasar Mitchell where she served as Chairperson in 2016-2018, making her the first Trans-person to chair any City of Atlanta constituted board. The position with the commission gave her the authority to facilitate Trans* Humility Training at all the homeless shelters within Atlanta city limits. She is the co-author of the “S.L.E.E.P. training manual” for the City of Atlanta and was the only Trans-person appointed to the City of Atlanta’s HOPWA Modernization Advisory Committee.

Haley also served four years as the secretary of Georgia’s State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights where she co-authored the “Disability Rights and Civil Rights in Georgia” report. From 2019 to 2021, she served on the Advisory Council to Recovery Resources of Atlanta Midtown Covenant Community, Inc. She also served as the chairperson of Trans Housing Atlanta Program (THAP), vice-chair of the Clayton County School Board’s Advisory Council, and co-chair of the Fulton County District Attorney’s LGBTQ Advisory Board.

Politically, she was elected to as the Fulton County Democrat Post At-Large seat from 2017-2018. She was also a 2018 delegate to the State Democrat Convention and a district level delegate to the 2020 Democrat National Convention.

She is a 2018 graduate of the City of Atlanta Citizens Police Academy. 

Haley currently facilitates “Trans* 101 Humility” training by request for any type of organization. She has previously conducted this training with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and fifteen universities, including Yale. She has been contracted to facilitate sensitivity training and police interactions with the National Center for Victims of Crimes in Philadelphia and a Chicago affiliate. She regularly participates in police scenarios with recruits for the Atlanta Police Academy.

Haley holds certifications in Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership in Employment Law from Cornell University and holds additional certifications in change management, nonprofit volunteer management, and virtual management.

In 2017, Haley became the first Trans-person to be listed in Real Times Media “Who’s Who in Black Atlanta” 17th edition. In 2018, she was received the Trailblazer Award from the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition (BTAC) and in 2019, received the Monica Roberts Award for Advocacy from BTAC. In 2019, she was the Atlanta Pride Grand Marshall.