Fatima Malik

Fatima is a public health professional and health equity practitioner dedicated to advancing social justice in disadvantaged communities. Currently she is an associate planner with the City of Sacramento. She is an alumni of the Partners Advancing Climate Equity cohort led by SGC and Environmental Leadership Initiative Fellowship by LHF. As the volunteer CEO for the Del Paso Heights Growers’ Alliance, she creates poverty intervention strategies that work to directly benefit vulnerable populations. Her life’s work includes urban agriculture education, edible landscaping, organizing community gardens and farms, and long-term neighborhood planning efforts to increase social, economic, and environmental well-being. As a new parent, she loves to spend time in parks, libraries, and swimming pools with her kiddo. Being an immigrant herself, she humbly supports new arrivals and those with limited English speaking skills navigate systems with dignity. Malik earned a Master of Public Health at SJSU and a degree in International Agricultural Development at UC Davis.