Malaika Jabali is a writer and activist whose work has appeared in Essence, The New Republic, GEN Mag, The Intercept, and The Guardian, where she is a columnist. Her debut political feature in Current Affairs Magazine, The Color of Economic Anxiety, was awarded the New York Association of Black Journalists Media Award for Newspaper/ Magazine feature. A Columbia Law School graduate, Malaika was an Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of Race & Law.