Rashid Shabazz

Rashid Shabazz is a visionary cultural communications strategist and advocate. He is the inaugural Executive Director of Critical Minded, a grantmaking and advocacy initiative founded in 2017 by the Ford Foundation and Nathan Cummings Foundation to support cultural critics of color in the United States. Critical Minded is devoted to fostering a vibrant cultural ecosystem that celebrates the multiplicity of perspectives from critics of color. Shabazz joins Critical Minded following a role as the Chief Marketing and Storytelling Officer for Color of Change, where he led the organization’s charge against the limited and tokenizing mainstream media landscape.