Maleeka Jihad (she/her)

Community Curator

MJ (Maleeka Jihad) is the Community Curator at Movement for Family Power, where she supports community building and the overall wellbeing of our movement ecosystem through programming development and facilitation.

MJ is also the Executive Director of MJ Consulting and the nonprofit MJCF: Coalition, an agency focused on dismantling systemic racism within the family policing (child welfare) system through education, advocacy, policy reform, and community engagement.

As a national educational expert on the negative impacts of system trauma, MJ provides trainings and consultations to professionals and organizations on program development and implementation, custom case analysis, as well as expert testimony regarding race, culture, and appropriate treatment services for families with dependency & neglect court cases.

MJ taught at the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work for five years, specializing in competencies surrounding racism, privilege, social justice somatic therapy, leadership skills, and child and family law courses.

She is pursuing her PhD in Organizational Development with Social Justice Change and Somatic Leadership Coaching (at Fielding Graduate School), with foundational PhD courses from the International Psychology Program at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Authoring several articles on racism within the child welfare industry and advocating for family-centered therapeutic support planning, MJ continues her commitment to creating lasting systemic change and decreasing generational harms and trauma towards vulnerable populations.