About Me
Fizah (she/her) has extensive experience in facilitating, designing, and holding spaces for groups to translate abstract concepts, values, principles and strategies into action. In both her paid work and community organizing, she has led co-design processes involving multiple stakeholders, centering those who are most impacted. She is currently a consultant with Frontline Solutions, and works on strategic planning, evaluation and learning projects.
Trained in both qualitative and quantitative research, she has also been part of shaping and operationalizing anti-racist results-based accountability (RBA) framework and racial equity measurement framework for different initiatives. In all the work that she does, she sees herself first and foremost as an anti-racist organizer which means that she works towards organizing other gatekeepers to build a network of support that can interrogate and push institutions to shift. Currently, she is also a trustee of New York Foundation.
Fizah graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Comparative Literature (Post-colonial Studies) and holds a MSc Degree in Urban Policy and Leadership from Hunter College Urban Planning and Policy school. Her capstone project mapped the spatial relationship between policing and state directed gentrification in Queens using ArcGIS, and proposes an abolitionist framework on anti-gentrification organizing.
Past Projects
Whether it is designing programs or implementing them, I am skilled at translating strategic plans into effective and efficient processes to ensure all outcomes are met. Besides program design, I also develop tools and resources, and training guides.
Communications & Design
Much of the issue areas I work in are complex and in need of systemic interventions – gentrification, diversity, equity and inclusion, equitable development, racial justice. I am skilled at untangling complex issues and presenting them in immediately comprehensible formats