Pious Ali Email & Phone Number

Dedicated public servant, assertive and pragmatic leader with a compassionate diversified skill set in community organizing, activism and civic engagement. Pious is the founding Director at Portland Empowered- A portland Based organization who strives to ensure that student and parent voices are reflected in policy and practice in Public Schools (Education). He has spent the better part of his career focused on community engagement. He has created a meaningful and ongoing dialogue across cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic, and faith-based barriers.Pious has worked with Muskie School for Public Service as a Family and Community Engagement Specialist, with the city of Portland’s refugee services and spent many summers working as a facilitator for Seeds of Peace, a summer program that builds relationships and leadership skills among youth from regions of conflict. He also worked as a site coordinator for the Peer Leader Program at what is now the Opportunity Alliance in Portland, Maine, and as an Education and Community Engagement Coordinator at the Portland branch of the NAACP.Mr. Ali is the first African-born Muslim American to be elected to a public office in Maine, becoming a member of the city’s elected Board of Public Education in 2013 and the City Council in 2016. He has also founded the erstwhile Maine Interfaith Youth Alliance and co-founded the King Fellows, a Portland-based youth group dedicated to creating meaningful opportunities for youth through leadership and civic engagement based on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and recently Launched The Civic and Community Engagement Fellowship at Muskie School of Public Service.Mr. Ali is an alumnus of the Institute for Civic Leadership ( known as Lift360), and in 2015 he was named Lift360’s Most Distinguished Alumnus and a Seeds of Peace 2017-18 Gather Fellow. A native of Ghana, Pious worked as a photojournalist for a range of print publications. He migrated to the United States of America first to New York City and has called Maine his home since 2002 where he lives with his two kids www,piousali.com