fmr Chief Policy Advisor to @GovMurphy and Secretary of Higher Education for @NJGov, Obama alum, wife, girl mom
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19 Oct 2019
Saturday morning reminder that while many of us may make this work look easy, it’s not. It’s day in and day out of grind, inch by inch progress, sometimes working for no progress, and often if not always seems impossible until it’s done (Madiba taught us). Don’t be discouraged.
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Posted a reel this week that seems to have struck a nerve: “If you’re bad at managing people, you’ll probably also be bad at managing AI.” Decided to write the longer version. open.substack.com/pub/zakiya…
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6 Nov 2025
The policy platform won the election.
Now you have to make it real.
Implementation is the difference between lives changed and expensive theater.
My latest, on the importance of policy implementation: zakiyaellis.substack.com/p/o…
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25 Oct 2025
I’ve been silent on this platform for a while…but if anyone is still looking for my thoughts, find them here: zakiyaellis.substack.com
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23 Jan 2025
Anyone else notice that the passport appointment website is down since at least yesterday?
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11 Nov 2024
I need us to stop talking about economic policy as if capitalism in America has ever been disconnected from White Supremacy. #makeitmakesense
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11 Nov 2024
OBVIOUSLY we should be concerned about people’s very real economic fears. Yet to act as if those fears are isolated from people’s consideration of social status and RACE is just bonkers. Bananas.
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Savage
5 Oct 2024
NO WAY
#Vandy played this quote from Nick Saban after the upset over Alabama:
“The only place that’s not hard to play in the SEC is Vanderbilt.”
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Voter suppression is real. A family member moved back to GA. They registered to vote when they got their new license. After a while, they realized they hadn’t received anything in the mail, and called to inquire where her voter registration card was 1/
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Voter suppression is real. A family member moved back to GA. They registered to vote when they got their new license. After a while, they realized they hadn’t received anything in the mail, and called to inquire where her voter registration card was 1/
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But no matter, no one CALLED or reached out to say we aren’t going to register you/we are cancelling your registration THAT YOU JUST ASKED FOR. Had they not followed up to check, they would have never known they weren’t registered.5/
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They went twice in person to try to rectify the issue in person at the elections office, and the power was out so they were closed 🤦🏾♀️ Whether incompetence or suppression, it’s disenfranchisement either way. 😡6/end
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IT’S NOT YOUR BUSINESS
2 Oct 2024
Vance basically just said Don't worry your pretty little head about that unplanned pregnancy.
It's not about options. It's about a woman making her own decisions about her own body.
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Impressive
11 Sep 2024
She hates Israel and also the Arabs
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Dr. Zakiya Smith Ellis retweeted
11 Sep 2024
FACT: Immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S.-born citizens. npr.org/2024/03/08/123710315…
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The weave
11 Sep 2024
WHAT IS TRUMP TALKING ABOUT????
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Dr. Zakiya Smith Ellis retweeted
11 Sep 2024
“In Springfield they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.”
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Did not have student loan forgiveness as an answer to abortion on my debate bingo card
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