Maya Malik (they/them), MSSW, is an incoming doctoral student in the Curriculum and Instruction program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Maya is interested in utilizing arts-based research to co-create informal education programs with queer Black American youth from areas impacted by community violence. They earned their Masters of Science in Social Work from the Columbia School of Social Work, focusing on International Social Welfare and Rights for Immigrants and Refugees (within education).
Mx. Malik has worked as the Assistant Director of Curricular Initiatives at Brown University’s Swearer Center for Public Service, the community-engaged Training Coordinator for the Women’s Health Center at Boston University Medical School, a researcher with the McGill Global Child Research Group in the Participatory Methods Axis, and as a researcher at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, in their Youth and Media core.
Maya was also a 2022-2023 Sadler Scholar at the Hastings Center for their work on the intersection of health and reparations interventions, and a 2023-2024 Participatory Action Fellow with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC).
Publications
Frankfurter, R., Malik, M., Kpakiwa, S. D., McGinnis, T., Malik, M. M., Chitre, S., Barrie, M. B., Dibba, Y., Mulalu, L., Baldwinson, R., Fallah, M., Rashid, I., Kelly, J. D., & Richardson, E. T. (2024). Representations of an Ebola ‘outbreak’ through story technologies. BMJ Global Health, 9(2), e013210. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013210
Malik, M., & Malik, M. M. (2021). Critical technical awakenings. Journal of Social Computing, 2(4), 365–384. https://doi.org/10.23919/JSC.2021.0035
Cortesi, S., Hasse, A., Eigen, M., Toscano, P. M., Malik, M., & Gasser, U. (2021, October 28). Youth and extended reality: An initial exploration of augmented, virtual, and mixed realities. Youth and Media, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37369907
Gyan, G., Malik, M., & Siddique, A. (2021). Barriers to women’s participation in community development processes in rural Ghana: A regression analysis. Development in Practice, 32(4): 448–459. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2021.1937541
Richardson, E. T., Malik, M. M., Darity, W. W., Jr., Mullen, A. K., Morse, M. E., Malik, M., Maybank, A., Bassett, M. T., Farmer, P. E., Worden, L., & Jones, J. H. (2021). Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the US and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Social Science & Medicine, 276, 113741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113741
Presentations
(2024, November 9). The arts as knowledge construction in community engaged scholarship. 7th Community-Based Global Learning Summit. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, November 8-10, 2024.
(2022, May 21). Place-based understandings of power, Black geographies and ethical critiques of colonial uses of space: Rethinking procedural ethics with war-affected youth. With Neil Bilotta and Rosemary R. Carlton. 18th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2022). Virtual, May 18-22, 2022.
(2021, January 20). Methods and critical issues training: Critical theory and quantification. With Ezekiel Dixon-Román and Momin M. Malik. Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power. Mellon Sawyer Seminar, University of Cambridge. https://www.ai.hps.cam.ac.uk/activities/methods-and-critical-issues-training/methods-and-critical-issues-training-critical-theory