Kifah Shah

Pronouns: she/her

Kifah Shah is a strategist, coach, and professor with over 15 years of experience in community organizing, campaigns, communications, and civic engagement. She specializes in narrative strategy, digital organizing, and movement-building for progressive campaigns across the U.S.

Kifah is currently a senior consultant at reimagine collective, a women of color-led network of strategists, where she provides narrative development and campaign planning support to partners advancing housing justice, climate resilience, reproductive rights, immigrant justice, and more. She teaches Spurring Social Justice at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, a practice-based course that helps public health students apply advocacy and organizing tools in their work.

Across her career, Kifah has held senior roles in advocacy, research, strategic communications, and organizational development — building high-impact campaigns, managing cross-functional teams, and advising national efforts in electoral strategy, immigrant justice, reproductive justice, and economic justice.

As an executive coach, Kifah supports nonprofit leaders and senior teams in cultivating sustainable leadership practices, aligning organizational values with internal culture, and building resilient, high-impact teams. She is currently completing certification through the Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation program.

Kifah’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, TED, The Atlantic, NPR, and Mother Jones. She holds a Master’s in Public Administration in Economic Policy from The London School of Economics and a B.A. in EthnicStudies from UC Berkeley.