The Greenlining Institute
Maria Barakat is a Program Manager for Transformative Racial Equity at The Greenlining Institute, with previous experience as a Racial Equity Policy Consultant at the Public Health Institute and Graduate Student Researcher at both the Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative at UCSF and the Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley Law. Maria operated as a self-employed professional from January 2022 to July 2023 and held various chef positions from July 2007 to December 2021. Additionally, Maria served as an Appointed Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights of Sonoma County and was a founding board member of Sonoma County Acts of Kindness. Educational credentials include a Master of Public Policy in Housing, Social, Criminal Legal, and Child Welfare Policy from UC Berkeley, along with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Political Science from UC Davis.
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The Greenlining Institute
Founded in 1993, The Greenlining Institute envisions a nation where communities of color thrive and race is never a barrier to economic opportunity. Because people of color will be the majority of our population by 2044, America will prosper only if communities of color prosper. Greenlining advances economic opportunity and empowerment for people of color through advocacy, community and coalition building, research, and leadership development. We work on a variety of major policy issues, from the economy to environmental policy, civic engagement and many others, because economic opportunity doesn’t operate in a vacuum. Rather than seeing these issues as being in separate silos, Greenlining views them as interconnected threads in a web of opportunity.