Fátima (she/her/ella) received her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice in 2016. With a concentration in Social Administration, Fátima’s specialization was in Community Organizing, Planning, and Development. While at the University of Chicago, Fátima interned at Association House in Humboldt Park as part of a home-visiting program supporting first-time Black and Latinx young mothers in their transition to parenthood, and was a reproductive justice organizing intern at the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, collaborating with youth and adult allies to develop campaigns and create a school model-policy supporting the Title IX rights of pregnant and parenting youth. Fátima was previously a rape crisis counselor and medical advocate with the YWCA in the South Side of Chicago, an AmeriCorps member with City Year Los Angeles, and a volunteer researcher with UCLA Law’s COVID Behind Bars Data Project.
Fátima was born in San Francisco, raised in the Mission and Excelsior Districts, and is bilingual in Spanish and English. She earned her LCSW in California and graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy.