Kameelah Mu’min Rashad BA, MEd, PsyD

Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad, PsyD is the Founder and President of the Muslim Wellness Foundation (MWF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting healing and emotional well-being in the American Muslim community through dialogue, education, and training. She is also the founding co-Director of the National Black Muslim COVID Coalition, an initiative launched in collaboration with the Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative to address the need for effective planning, preparedness, and organizing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through Muslim Wellness Foundation, Dr. Rashad has established the annual Black Muslim Psychology Conference and the Deeply Rooted Emerging Leaders Fellowship for Black Muslim young adults. She is the advisor to Penn Sapelo, the first Black Muslim student organization at UPenn, and served three years as the Muslim Chaplain at UPenn. Dr. Rashad’s clinical and research areas of interest include spirituality in psychotherapy, wellness and community resource building, story-telling as a way of facilitating connection, healing, and closure in the family of origin, mental health stigma in faith and minority communities, first-generation college students and emerging adults of color; diversity, religious identity, and multicultural issues in counseling, healing justice and faith-based activism, racial trauma and healing, the psychological impact of anti-Muslim bigotry and anti-Blackness, Black Muslim psychology and Black Muslim intersectional invisibility.

Dr. Rashad graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Psychology and MEd in Psychological Services. She obtained further graduate education, earning a second Masters in Restorative Practices & Youth Counseling (MRP) from the International Institute for Restorative Practices. She completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Rashad describes herself most importantly and simply as a Mama, Auntie, sister, and friend. A baker, psychologist, family historian, genealogist, and bean pie evangelist. She writes, reflects, and tweets on topics related to the intersections of race, religion, identity, trauma, healing, and collective well-being. She also shares random anecdotes about her Tiny Human, her two Teens and her pandemic pets m: cat, John Brown, and hounds: Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey.