Imadé Borha is the Director of National Campaign Communications for the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC) at NYU Metro Center. She follows the leadership of parents and students to create communications campaigns for inclusive schools. Imadé also works with talented creatives to publish multimedia content. She uses her skills as a former newspaper journalist to write policy platforms, op-eds, and social media campaigns. Imadé’s passion for education justice and mental health advocacy fuels her work.
She brings experience from her past role at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice where she worked to end the school-to-prison pipeline by amplifying student voices. This led to student-centered press coverage in publications including The New York Times and Good Morning America.
Imadé received a bachelor’s degree in Sociology at Duke University and two master’s degrees in Arts Journalism at USC and Non-Fiction Creative Writing at Columbia University. She is the product of public schools and a loving mother who passionately advocated for her daughter’s education.