Hello, my name is Kalimah Ujaama, my pronouns are she/her, and I am an author, retired spoken word performer, and advocate of racial justice and gender-based violence outside of work. Right now, I am researching racism, discrimination, and gender-based violence in Muslim communities and writing novels. You can find me traveling everywhere, being super aunty to thirteen nieces and nephews, and hiking Washington whenever I get a chance.

I come from a long legacy of service to God, country, family, and community with my direct ancestral line receiving the Croix De Guerre in World War One (the highest honor a Black American soldier could receive at the time) and serving as Tuskegee Airmen, educators, Black Panthers, and community leaders. I continue the legacy to fight for spaces where everyone is treated with dignity and has equal access to opportunities and privileges.

As the pro-equity consultant for Washington State Patrol, I bring a warm-hearted soul with a sunshine personality, a passion for being of service to others, and an attitude to meet any challenge with creativity and innovation. I bring my knowledge base covering history and resulting disparities from a racial-ethnic lens, sex-gender lens, and youth-families lens domestic or global in scope. I also bring a mindset to contextualize the intersectionality of rooted systemic oppression and to ask the right questions by listening to what's being communicated under the surface.

I will know my work with Washington State Patrol is making a difference for Washingtonians when the data and the workforce visibly embodies our seven principles at the Office of Equity. I will know our work together is making a difference when communities have more trust, less fear, and a better understanding of Washington State Patrol that allows difficult barriers to be broken and bonds to grow.

My vision for the future includes communities, groups of people, and issues often made invisible by louder movements with more resources to be sustained. My vision means difficult conversations that aren't always resolved but always produce respect, dignity, and understanding as the end results. We will have a just and equitable future systemic oppression is rooted out and when all walks of life and ways of living have the resources, power, and opportunities to co-exist peacefully and thrive.