Inner-city Muslim Action Network
Nikia Marie Bilal is an accomplished legal and development professional with extensive experience in program compliance and grant writing. Currently serving as the Associate Director of Development at Inner-city Muslim Action Network since July 2020, Bilal has also held roles as Senior Program Compliance Manager and Manager of Program Compliance within the same organization. Prior to this, Bilal co-founded Amal Law Group, LLC, and contributed as a copyeditor at Inner-city Muslim Action Network. Earlier career experiences include serving as a Law Clerk at Cook County Public Guardian and a Library Assistant at the Supreme Court Library of Illinois. Bilal holds a Doctor of Law degree from DePaul University and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Loyola University Chicago.
Inner-city Muslim Action Network
The Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) is a community organization that fosters health, wellness and healing in the inner-city by organizing for social change, cultivating the arts, and operating a holistic health center. IMAN incorporated as a nonprofit in 1997 through the drive of people directly affected by and deeply invested in social issues affecting communities of color living on Chicago’s South Side. Since that time, IMAN has steadily grown and, in 2016, opened a second office in Atlanta to continue mobilizing a cross-section of people committed to this mission. The organization models an integrative approach that employs holistic interventions to address a spectrum of structural and systemic injustices impeding a dignified quality of life for people in marginalized communities.