About Malikah

Malikah A. Shabazz is a Detroit-based multi-hyphenate creative. She has worked as a television producer for a major cable network and served as post production producer for the short film BodyMore. She served as the multimedia producer for Sapelo Square, an award-winning blog on Black Muslims in America and is the curator of #BilalianExperience, a platform dedicated to celebrating and promoting the narrative of Black American Muslims in American Media.

Malikah is a 2021 Fellow of the MPAC Hollywood Bureau/Blackhouse Inaugural Television Screenwriting Lab for Black Muslims. She wrote, directed and produced her first short CONSTERNATION in 2018. Her previous projects also include The Vortex and Transplants. Malikah is currently in pre-production for her next short film, Amethyst.

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Malikah is the founder and CEO of The #BilalianExperience, a creative eco system for Black American Muslilms in Arts, Culture and Media. In 2022 she curated her first exhibition, Jumuah at Masjid Al- Earth, as part of Design Core’s Month of Design in Detroit, MI. Her own piece, ‘The Guardian’ was a featured piece in the exhibition.

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Malikah also hosts and produces her podcast The Creative Snug, which serves as an audio safe space for creatives to "figure it out."

Her clients have included The Avalon Village, Dream of Detroit, Charivari Detroit, New Africa Designs, Love Is Always The Subject, and others.

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Malikah serves as a board member for DREAM of Detroit, Black Muslim GIrl Fly and is a proud member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.