Malaika Parker has worked toward the creation of a racially just SF Bay Area for 25 years. Malaika has demonstrated her commitment to BIPOC communities by working diligently to address issues of police accountability, racial justice in education, environmental justice and race based inequities in the child welfare system.
Malaika is the founder of Hummingbirds Urban Farming Collective, a project that works at the intersection of race and ecological justice, promoting food sovereignty and an ancestral connection between Black children and the communities that raise them. Malaika is the founding Director of the Adoptive Parents of Color Collaborative, a project of Pact, an adoption alliance. Currently Malaika works in service to community as the Executive Director of the Black Organizing Project where she supports the urgent work to build Black power in the Oakland Bay Area. Malaika is a proud Women of Color LeadStrong Fellowship alumnae.