Sadiyah Malcolm

Background

About Sadiyah Malcolm

Sadiyah Malcolm is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan. Drawing on Caribbean, Black, and transnational feminist traditions, she utilizes mixed methods research techniques to witness and examine the lifeworlds of Black Girls. She is a proud alumna of Howard University, where she earned undergraduate degrees in both sociology and Afro-American studies and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Sadiyah is the founder of SELaH (Sistas Elevating Learning and Healing), which was founded in 2010 with a foremost commitment to empowering girls through community building, literacy, and the arts. Through SELaH, she remains active in community engagement, developing mentoring and recreational programs such as the Black Girls Lit(eracy) Project, ‘Youths fi Learn’, and educational curricula for adjudicated teen girls. Her research places Black girls at the center, specifically examining matters related to emerging adulthood and the factors which shape the period of adolescence in the life course of young Black women. Sadiyah has been featured by NPR and Wallace House, and her research has been supported by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, the Rackham Graduate School, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Institute for Social Research. Her current project is based in Kingston, Jamaica, W.I.