in bio.

Malik’s written and artistic work includes theatre, essay, short story, poetry, and sound. Their work has received awards including a Periplus Fellowship and the August Wilson Archive Community Artist-Scholar Award.

As an educator and facilitator, Malik has served in various organizational roles, coordinating outreach in schools and communities, developing and facilitating curriculum for teens and young adults, and supporting those who have experienced violence. They have led efforts to engage men around gender justice, utilize restorative practices in the prevention and response to violence, and shift narratives about the complexities of interpersonal harm and its relationship with larger systems of power and carceral violence. He has served as Director of Sexual Violence Prevention & Education at the University of Pennsylvania, executive director of the William Kellibrew Foundation, in education roles with Break the Cycle and the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and in public media with NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin.

He received a bachelor’s degree from Howard University with focus in communications, Africana studies, and political science; and graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education.

Pronouns: malik, he, or they