Malika McKinley Cox

Creating healing spaces for compassionate listening and repair through restorative justice and embodied practices.

Hi, I’m Malika. I am an author, writer, truth-teller, artist, speaker, & champion for human and nature rights. I offer compassionate, strategic consulting to individuals, organizations, teams, and human resources departments seeking to transform leadership styles and co-create healthier work cultures.

I hold degrees in International Law and Diplomacy, Conflict Resolution, and Practical Theology, and have studied at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Trinity College Dublin, Regent University, and Harvard Divinity School. I have decades of experience working in non-profit management, conflict resolution, restorative justice, and ecumenical peacebuilding.

My mission is to guide individuals and teams toward deeper listening, honest dialogue, and authentic connection. My approach fosters truth, trust, accountability, and mutual flourishing. My work is rooted in the values of positive peacemaking, restorative justice, flourishing, and wholeness.

I believe that amidst the current chaos and turmoil of our time, an era of revolutionary peace has begun. I’d love to share how we can flow with this movement and foster spaces where people and communities come together to mend what’s been broken, honor the earth’s rhythms, and co-create beauty, fairness, and repair in the world. Through restorative justice circles, my peacemaker curriculum, and the cultivation of sacred embodied practices, I walk alongside individuals and communities seeking transformation for inner and societal flourishing. If this resonates with you, I would love to connect more on a 15-minute free consultation.

“Malika is bold, articulate, and self-aware. She manages to expertly weave knowledge plus compassion into every project. She speaks truth but displays grace. She leads with conviction. She's a phenomenal teacher who speaks from a place that she has wrestled with and walked out. Malika is the real deal and makes every individual, team, and community around her better, stronger, and more whole.” - Chad Jordan, CEO LM Workforce

"Malika Cox is the perfect storm of impeccable brilliance, passion, and praxis. Her transformational leadership style inspires any audience to believe in what is possible when head and heart come together for global impact." - Cece Jones Davis, Justice for Julius and Sing For Change

"Malika engaged our fellowship cohort with remarkable purpose, clarity, honesty, and care. I think of her as a healing and courageous presence in a hurting world, who sees the humanity and light within everyone and bridges identities and worlds through soulful action." - Eddie Gonzales, On Being Project, Director of Engagement

“Malika has the most remarkable ability to inform, educate, and articulate concepts in a way that causes her audience to experience deep reflection, challenge long-held beliefs, and resolve to move toward a more just society. The insight she has gained through both experience and study is life-changing, and any community, city, institution, or individual will be a better version of itself for engaging her work.” Kim Bandy, Director, and Co-Founder of The Spero Project

“It has been a privilege getting to know Malika over these past number of months during which she has so graciously served in our Peace and Reconciliation Mission in Clonard. She has made a significant impact on our work and vision as we continue to strive to bring healing and reconciliation to Northern Ireland.” - Ed Peterson, Coordinator, Clonard Peace and Reconciliation Mission, Clonard Monastery

MEND Restorative Justice Non-Profit in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma