Biography:

Maryam is the daughter of community organizers, builders, and healers. She wears many hats ( or hijabs) as an organizational strategist, social impact and purpose coach, antiracism educator, and writer dedicated to healing justice and laboratory practice.

With years of experience guiding individuals and organizations toward deeper understanding and transformative growth, Maryam creates spaces that prioritize growth, wisdom, and hope. Her work spans personal coaching, community engagement, and strategic support, with a focus on helping people connect their values and actions.

Maryam has served as a racial equity strategist and consultant for nonprofit organizations and philanthropic institutions across a variety of projects. She has facilitated participatory grantmaking and strategic planning processes as well as community visioning sessions.

Her expertise includes retreats, gatherings, and programmatic design. Additionally, Maryam has collaborated with organizations to develop antiracist and racially equitable frameworks across sectors and within movement spaces.

As an antiracism and racial justice educator, she is the co-creator and facilitator of the course Antiracism in Action. Maryam has designed curricula, facilitated communities of practice, and led learning circles across diverse racial and social identities. She has also facilitated racial healing spaces for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, looking for places of reflection and connection. Maryam works with organizations seeking to align their values and practices to create equitable systems change.

Maryam is a former Western States Center’s Defending Democracy fellow, where she piloted a learning series on understanding how to counter white supremacy and white nationalism and the power of diverse communities to build inclusive and liberatory spaces. She is an AMAL graduate, a Muslim ARC fellowship that trains practitioners in an intersectional antiracism framework. Most recently, she has had the honor to participate in the Grantmakers for Southern Progress fellowship, a leadership development program that helps participants develop the knowledge and skills necessary to support grassroots movements and structural change in the South.

As a transformative coach, Maryam’s approach is rooted in healing, justice, and liberation. She is a graduate of CHJL, a coaching program that seeks to uncover and rediscover traditional and adaptive ways of living out our value systems of expansiveness and liberation for collective healing.

As a freelance writer, Maryam brings a research-based approach to topics regarding personal development, healing/wellness, and racial and social analysis. Finally, she is a storyteller and believes narrative is a powerful tool of expression and change. Maryam was honored to be a part of a powerful and creative project uplifting the voices of Muslim women, check out 99 Clay Vessels.