Khadijah Ameen is a community-based social scientist and public health practitioner with over a decade of experience integrating racial health equity solutions into research, policy, and practice. As a Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, her research explores barriers and opportunities for building the civic power of Black women, particularly those situated in the American South, to shape equitable health policy change. As co-founder of the Georgia-based nonprofit BLKHLTH, she manages the organization’s community health research advisory and policy advocacy workstreams. Previously, she provided strategic advisory to the federal government on integrating evidence-based interventions into health and social policies at the CDC’s Office of the Associate Director of Policy and Strategy and CMS’s Innovation Center.