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Zakiyah Ansari

Zakiyah Ansari is the Advocacy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education and a mother of 8, grandmother to 3 that has been doing education justice work for more than 16 years. She is also a life long community member and a constituent of Senator Jesse Hamilton.

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