Malika Hodge, Mph
About Malika Hodge, Mph
I am an expert Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access (DEIA) strategist, coach, and trainer with a Master’s degree in public health from Tufts University Medical School. Upon graduation I was the only student awarded the prestigious H. Jack Geiger Public Health Advocacy Award. I am the founder of Humanize Me International, LLC., an international DEIA consulting firm. I have over 10 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. I am skilled at creating and building pipelines to attract, develop, and include people from multicultural backgrounds and multi-dimensional identities. I believe that creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environments requires expansive thinking followed by just policies and ongoing behaviors. I utilize my lived experience, racial equity, reproductive justice, and behavioral health lens to help organizations create sustainable anti-racist policies, processes, and practices that encourage 'equity in all things.' To begin this process, I facilitate trainings on foundational racial justice topics. These foundational topics include unconscious and conscious bias, systematic racism, intersectionality, structural violence, and equity vs. equality. However, the bulk of transformative racial justice work is the application of these principles to the HR and general organizational realms, so that racial justice work is institutionalized and centered. This where the bulk of my expertise lies, skillfully guiding organizations on racial justice application. Currently, I serve as an external change agent to over 30 hospitals and healthcare clinics throughout the U.S. I work with high-level hospital leaders, guiding them through the process of transforming healthcare to centers black, indigenous,& persons of color (BIPOC) while disrupting problematic power structures that perpetuate structural violence creating racial inequities. I’ve also guided comprehensive racial justice change movements at higher education institutions, non-profits, governmental organizations, NGOs, public schools, and biomedical genomic research organizations. I can captivate audiences, making people feel engaged and enticed about facing their biases, challenging the status quo, and deepening their self-awareness. My unique approach combining methods of facilitative leadership, mindfulness, and somatics creates an experiential experience that truly cultivates just behavioral changes.