Malik Stewart

Malik serves as a Senior Director with Empower Schools, where he works closely with communities, school districts and state agencies to launch strategic partnerships that empower public schools to operate innovative models that advance outcomes. Prior to joining Empower, Malik worked at Reading Partners where he led the North Texas high-impact tutoring portfolio in providing 1,800+ children from 20+ campuses with literacy support (90% of students met their primary literacy growth goals, and students in FWISD met their EOY goals in the midst of the COVID pandemic). During this time, he served as the co-creator of the HBCU AmeriCorps recruitment committee and reviewer for the AmeriCorps Hardship Relief Fund.

During his 3.5 years with the YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth, Malik raised and managed $5.5 million in impact funding as the Association’’s Grants lead. He helped launch a summer learning loss strategy and expand anti-hunger services from 2 communities to 5 while creating greater access to chronic disease prevention services.

In Delaware, He supervised federal education programs at both the district and state levels, managing the Quality Review System, Title I, 1003 SIG and 21st CCLC programs, federal (OIG) and state monitoring and coordinated Delaware’s National Blue Ribbon and Distinguished ESEA school awards. During that time he also launched community school pilots that served 3,000 students, a Parent University that engaged 8,000 families and partnered with school teachers to launch the “Ready 4 K” summer kindergarten transition program, helping 300+ children prepare for their first school experience.

Malik has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art Design from North Carolina A&T State University (AGGIES DO) and a Master’s in Education from Cabrini University. He is based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area with his wife Doreen and their family. He’s been a volunteer baseball and basketball coach, tutor and mentor, and currently serves on the Boards of Conversations In Color and Renaissance Heights Foundation. He enjoys traveling with his family, reading, refereeing youth basketball and supporting local businesses, along with his hometown (Go Birds!) professional sports teams. Malik credits his family and childhood years on Bartram Avenue, in Bethel AME Church Lansdowne (PA), educational experiences in Tuskegee (Ala), New York and in North Carolina as essential building blocks in his commitment to challenging systemic inequalities on behalf of children and communities. "There is no problem bigger than your power. You can do something" - Dr. Wendi Williams