Hafizah Omar

Board Development Committee Co-Chair
Consultant, Frontline Solutions 

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. Her most recent co-design process was the building of Living Cities’ current signature portfolio – the Closing the Gaps Network, a network for people in local government to push for an anti-racist vision and action in local governments and beyond. 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 ongoing interrogate and push institutions to shift.She calls Centro Corona her political home and space of transformation, and also organizes with Survived & Punished NY to free criminalized survivors from NY prisons. Fizah graduated from the University of Michigan in 2010 with a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Comparative Literature (French and English) and holds a MSc Degree in Urban Policy and Leadership from Hunter College Urban Planning and Policy school.