Rasheed A. Malik is the Director of Early Childhood Policy at the Center for American Progress. His work focuses on child care infrastructure and supply, the economic benefits of child care, and bias and discrimination in early childhood policy. Malik’s research and policy expertise has been featured in The New York Times, Vox, The Washington Post, NPR, Slate, and CNBC, among others and he has testified multiple times before Congress as an expert on the child care crisis.
Prior to joining CAP, Malik was a government affairs and communications associate for the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, an organization with the goal of making the New York Harbor a shared, resilient, and accessible resource for all New Yorkers.
Malik holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in public affairs from Baruch College. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and two young children.
