Designer · Author · Humanitarian
Khaliah Ali
A fashion designer who built clothes for women of every size, an author who told her own hard story honestly, and a humanitarian who has spent decades showing up — for children, for families who need a home, and for people the justice system failed.
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Her Story
The life behind the work — where she comes from and what set her on this path.
Read her storyThe Book
Fighting Weight — her memoir of obesity, a decision that changed everything, and getting her life back.
About the bookFashion
From the runway to her own collection: clothing designed for women of all sizes, sold for over two decades.
Her fashion careerCauses
The organisations she serves — each role labelled with what it is today, and what belongs to her history.
Her causesJustice
Her advocacy for people she believes were wrongfully convicted, told from her side.
Her justice workCongo
In 2009 she travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo — and helped lay the first stone of a school for girls.
The Congo journeyWhere she serves today
As of November 2026, Khaliah Ali serves on the board of the Juvenile Law Center, the board of Street Soccer USA, and the Board of Governors of the We Are Family Foundation, and she co-chairs the Power of Place Capital Campaign of the National Public Housing Museum. The full record — current roles and historical ones, each with its dates — is on the Causes page.
Two cases in Texas and Michigan have her heart right now — a man on death row, and a man four decades into a life sentence. Read about her justice work.
Support the work
Her missions run on other people's generosity — given to them, not to this site. The organisations on the Causes page each take their own donations and volunteers at their own doors. And her two cases have their own calls to action: sign the Innocence Project's petition for Robert Roberson, and write to Michigan's Governor for Temujin Kensu. This tribute asks for nothing, takes no donations, and sells nothing — it just points you to the work.
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