Kalia Abiade
Chicago
Kalia Abiade is the Advocacy Director at the Center for New Community, a research and advocacy organization that tracks racist movements in the United States. She spearheads the organization's work to equip and mobilize grassroots organizations and national coalitions to challenge racial discrimination and inequality in public discourse, practice and policy.
Kalia brings to her work more than a decade of experience as a newspaper editor and reporter. She has also taught high school students in Southwest Virginia with the Upward Bound/TRIO program.
Her analysis has been cited by the Associated Press, Washington Post, The Nation, The Hill, NPR, and Wall Street Journal, among other media outlets.
She lives with her husband and their three children on Chicago's South Side.