Essence & Hyundia:
Essential Heroes Award
My team and I were honored to receive an Essential Heroes Award in recogniton of our STEM Mentorships and community engagement.
BKLYN COMBINE DAY
ON BLM Mural, NYC
Brooklyn Borough rep. Marlon Rice and Councilman Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. create an honorary Bklyn Combine Day.
#BK2AK Raises over $250K in 24 Hours
With special help from fundraising phenom Carlos Whittaker @loswhit, we raised over $250,000 to support Brooklyn to Alaska programs and students. Follow @BrooklynToAlaska to watch our cabin build story as it unfolds.
I am honored and excited to join Beam Center's Advisory Board
Beam Center brings together youth, artists, engineers, and educators to produce ambitious, collaborative projects that foster conditions for educational equity. I look forward to advancing that agenda as a Beam Board Member.
HBO Presents Storm Over Brooklyn: The Yusuf Hawkins Story
I worked with a great team of educators and creatives to develop a curriculum and discussion guide to help educators and students learn more about Yusuf Hawkins and 1980s NY race relations.
Takashi Murakami Donates to The Brooklyn Combine
To support the BLM movement, Murakami created a limited edition piece with 100% of proceeds going to NGOs fighting for social justice in the U.S. The Brooklyn Combine was selected along with five other like-minded community organizations.
Crown Royal and Essence Honor The Brooklyn Combine
The article features the Combine and other Black men around the country, working to create the change we want to see in the world.
We Joined Brooklyn College for their annual NYC Mens Teach Event
We lead knowledge sharing workshops for new college educators. that focused on community engagement, social justice, and STEM education.
8-Week STEM Intensive at Summit Academy
With the help of Alicia Arlington and the entire Summit Academy Charter School staff, we delivered an engaging STEM intensive for the academy students and other youth in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.
Kickstarter Invites Mali X To Moderate BHM Forum
With special help from fundraising phenom Carlos Whittaker @loshit, we raised over $250,000 to support Brooklyn to Alaska programs and students. Follow @BrooklynToAlaska to watch our cabin build story as it unfolds.
Baldwin Talks
at Schomburg Center
Educator/Photography Barnabas Crosby, myself, and the BklynCombine leadership, led a series of community talks on James Baldwin's, Price of the Ticket. The series concluded at the legendary Schomburg Center in NYC.
Mot Hall @Yale Hackathon
Our students had a great time at Yale's Code Boola and are looking forward to next year. s/o to TED Fellow and Principal Nadia Lopez for coordinating our Yale Hackathon trip.
Spotify Welcomes MHB Academy to Annual Hackathon
Mali and Team Support NCMM Gala for 5th Consecutive Year
Mali X Moderates Culture + Code
Panel Discusion
Beam Center's Build Anything Program Meets IRL + Virtually
Coca-Cola 5x20
Women's Empowerment
It was an honor providing creative direction and strategy to help Coca-Cola empower more than 6M women across South Africa, Brazil, India, and the Philippines.
Lowekey Labs
at MetLife
Collaborating with Lowekey Labs for a week-long mobile app mentoring camp was a pleasure. On the final day, our student developers shared their apps with guest mentor Michael Strahan at MetLife Stadium.
