Abdul-Rehman Malik

Abdul-Rehman Malik is an award-winning journalist, educator, cultural organizer. He is a Lecturer at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Jackson School for Global Affairs. He also directs a student facing leadership program at Yale’s Dwight Hall Center for Social Justice and Public Service. Abdul-Rehman is a founder of the Caravanserai Collective whose Cerita Caravan program has provided narrative strategies and training to storytellers and civil society actors to support vital interfaith and inter-cultural peacebuilding work in conflict and post-conflict contexts around the world. A veteran contributor to BBC Radio and other international media, he is also host of the Aga Khan Museum’s popular podcast “This Being Human”.

His work at the intersection of faith and social change has spanned the globe, with projects in Canada, USA, UK, Pakistan, Sudan, Indonesia, Mali, Morocco, Singapore, Malaysia, and others. He was an inaugural fellow of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme’s Senior Faith in Leadership Program, a groundbreaking inter-faith leadership initiative. For several years, he was the Programs Manager for the Radical Middle Way, developing faith-inspired guidance and tools to enable positive social change, promote social justice, and combat exclusion and violence.