Mr. Griffith is the Co-Director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, a policy and community resource organization that promotes economic justice in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color in New York City . He also is a fellow at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and a practicing journalist . Mr. Griffith's articles and public policy analysis on community development and economic justice issues have appeared in dozens of publications including the New York Times, the Nation, the New York Daily News, the Village Voice and Essence magazine.

In 2003 Mr. Griffith completed a twelve year tenure as the founding Executive Director of the Central Brooklyn Partnership , a neighborhood-based organization that built the capacity of local people to exert political and economic power. While directing the Partnership he also served as the founding Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, which at the time was the country's largest Black-owned, community-based financial cooperative in the United States .

Mr. Griffith is a graduate of Brown University (B.A. 1985) and received a Master's degree in contemporary literature from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria in 1988. Mr. Griffith was a 1993-1994 Revson Fellow for the Future of New York at Columbia University , a 2001-2002 winner of the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership fellowship, and a 2003- 2005 Open Society Institute (OSI) Community Fellow. Mr. Griffith is Jamaican-American and is currently contributing to a book on the impact of Diaspora on home politics.