in bio.
Malik Washington is a writer, educator, and artist working across and against form.
At the confluences of my practices, my writing crosses plays, poetry, and prose. As a playwright, I am concerned with retaining memory to imagine futures, practicing them on stage as ritual. I find guidance in sound and place. Across these practices, I seek spaces that invite learning, beauty, and interruptions of power and violence.
Malik has served in various organizational roles, coordinating outreach in schools and communities, developing and facilitating curriculum for teens and young adults, and supporting those who have experienced violence. They have led efforts to engage men around gender justice, utilize restorative practices in the prevention and response to violence, and shift narratives about the complexities of interpersonal harm and its relationship with larger systems of power and carceral violence. He has served as Director of Sexual Violence Prevention & Education at the University of Pennsylvania, executive director of the William Kellibrew Foundation, in education roles with Break the Cycle and the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and in public media with NPR’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin.
He received a bachelor’s degree from Howard University with focus in communications, Africana studies, and political science; and graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education.
Malik lives in Philadelphia, always with the love and endearment of his first home Washington County, PA.
Pronouns: malik, he, or they