Causes & Advocacy
The work that matters to her
Khaliah Ali's service record runs across four decades and half a dozen causes. This page tells it straight: every organisation is labelled Current — verified against the organisation's own listing in November 2026 — or Historical, with its dates, because a role from 2008 should never be dressed up as a role today.
How to help: every card below ends with that organisation's own door — its homepage, where it takes its own donations, volunteers, and sign-ups. Support flows to them directly. This tribute asks for nothing, takes no donations, and sells nothing.
Children & youth
Juvenile Law Center
Board member of the Philadelphia-based public-interest law firm for children — appointed September 24, 2020, and still listed on its board today. Her best-documented current role.
Her JLC board profileSupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.
We Are Family Foundation
Member of the Board of Governors of the foundation dedicated to young people changing the world.
WAFF Board of GovernorsSupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.
Project Sunshine
Board involvement documented in the late 2000s, serving children facing medical challenges. Not on the organisation's current board listing.
Project Sunshine todaySupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Spokesperson in the 2000s; on May 25, 2006 the U.S. Department of Justice named her its National Volunteer of the Year for that work.
DOJ release, May 2006Support them directly: learn more or support their work today.
Housing, home & the street
Street Soccer USA
Board member of the organisation that uses soccer to fight homelessness and poverty in communities across America.
Street Soccer USA — AboutSupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.
National Public Housing Museum
Co-Chair of the museum's Power of Place Capital Campaign — the campaign that carried the Chicago museum to its opening in spring 2025. (A campaign leadership role, not a board seat.)
National Public Housing MuseumSupport them directly: support the museum and its campaign on their own site.
HELP USA
Listed as a Director of the housing and homelessness organisation in its 2026 organisational chart; her earlier documented title, Vice Chair, dates to 2022 and is not repeated here as current.
HELP USA org chart, TheOrgSupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.
Justice & second chances
Witness to Mass Incarceration
Board President, as documented in November 2024, of the organisation led by and for formerly incarcerated people. Her case advocacy itself is told on the Justice page.
Witness — AboutSupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.
Avenues for Justice
Recipient of the Andrew Glover Justice Award in 2023 for her support of the New York organisation that keeps young people out of prison — an honour, not a board seat.
Avenues for JusticeSupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.
Food, hunger & animals
Friends of the World Food Program / WFP USA
Director in 2011 of the U.S. support organisation for the World Food Programme. To be precise: this was the American friends organisation — never the governing board of the UN agency itself. Her 2009 Congo work with WFP is on the Congo page.
Friends of the World Food ProgramSupport them directly: support WFP USA on their own site.
Wildlife Warriors
United States Ambassador in the late 2000s for the conservation organisation founded by Steve and Terri Irwin, tied to Australia Zoo. She does not appear on its current ambassador lists, and this page does not pretend otherwise.
Support them directly: donate or get involved on their own site.
Young Audiences Arts for Learning
Honoured — with Jason Flom — with the first National Arts for Learning Award for Visionary Leadership & Impact, October 22, 2024. An award, not a board role.
Young Audiences 2024 galaSupport them directly: donate, volunteer, or learn more on their own site.