Executive Director
Del Paso Heights Growers Alliance
Sacramento, California
Fatima T. Malik-Wilson, MPH, Founder and Volunteer CEO, Del Paso Heights Growers' Alliance, is a public health professional and health equity practitioner dedicated to advancing social justice in disadvantaged communities. She served as a parks and recreation commissioner for the City of Sacramento for seven years until 2020. While on the commission she advocated for full size basketball courts and more access to community gardens in disadvantaged communities. She is committed to leading long-term neighborhood planning efforts to increase social, economic, and environmental well-being.
As the volunteer CEO for the Del Paso Heights Growers' Alliance, she created poverty intervention strategies to benefit vulnerable populations. Her life's work includes promoting urban ag, organizing community gardens, and nutrition education. Fatima loves to garden, cook, and travel. As a new parent, she loves to spend time in parks, libraries, and swimming pools with her kiddo. Being an immigrant herself, she humbly supports new arrivals and those with limited English speaking skills navigate systems with dignity. Malik earned a Master of Public Health at SJSU and a degree in International Agrciultural Development at UC Davis.
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Growing Access: Community Gardens, Urban Farms, Parks, and the Path to Food Sovereignty
Friday, March 21, 2025
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM PST