Khadijah Williams Email and Phone Number

With over 10 years of experience in education, mediation, policy and advocacy, community engagement, and strategic planning and management, Khadijah is passionate about centering families in policy making and advancing 2-generation economic mobility.As the National Director of Policy and Advocacy at LIFT, Inc., Khadijah leads the design and implementation of a brand new advocacy and policy growth strategy that aims to influence systemic change and eliminate poverty. She also serves in multiple appointed advisory roles at local and national nonprofits and within local government supporting the economic mobility of unhoused and low-income individuals and families. Previously, Khadijah was the Senior Manager of Family and Community Engagement at Rocketship Public Schools, where she set the vision and led the region-wide family engagement strategy and trained families in executing grassroots campaigns for education equity, and Legislative Affairs Specialist/ Program Associate at the DC Offices of Ombudsman for Public Education and Student Advocate, where she resolved complaints regarding public education, supported families in navigating the DC education system, and made recommendations to policy makers, government, and elected officials. Personally, Khadijah’s incredible story of surviving chronic homelessness has been covered by the Oprah Winfrey Show, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Essence Magazine. She is regularly asked to speak to graduate schools, organizations, and with the media, combining her unique lived experience and professional expertise to pose thoughtful questions and propose creative solutions to addressing our most pressing social economic problems. Khadijah’s core competencies include strategic analysis and planning, racial justice, community organizing, program management and implementation, data analysis, policy synthesis and recommendation, problem-solving, advising/coaching, lived-experience, and public speaking. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from Harvard University and a deep commitment to social justice and community power, as evidenced by both her extensive volunteer work and her professional endeavors.Views expressed on LinkedIn are Khadijah’s own.