Malika Hodge

Malika Hodge, MPH, CDC, CLC is an expert in Organizational Development, Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access (JEDI), and behavioral health.  She is the founder of the Human-Centered Leadership Collaborative, a facilitator, strategist, certified birth doula & lactation consultant, executive coach, mediator-in-training with the NY Peace Institute, and teaches Intro to Social Research at Simmons University. 

Malika is from the Bronx, New York, and is of Garifuna and West Indian heritage. She has a BA from Boston College and an MPH in nutrition from Tufts University School of Medicine.

She has over 15 years of experience building and supporting organizational change movements centered on anti-racism, intersectionality, health equity, and reproductive justice both in the U.S. and abroad (she is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in the Dominican Republic).

Malika is skilled at creating and building pipelines to attract, develop, and retain people from multicultural backgrounds and multi-dimensional identities. Malika believes that creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment requires expansive thinking followed by just policies, ongoing reflection, and behaviors. She utilizes her lived experience, racial equity, reproductive justice, and behavioral health lens to help organizations create sustainable human-centered policies, processes, and practices that encourage “justice in all things.”

Outside of this work, Malika enjoys nature, exploring the world, farming, eating and cooking yummy meals, dancing to music from all over the African diaspora, and learning new things that “shake her to her core.”