Shafia Zaloom

Shafia Zaloom is currently a health educator at the Urban School in San Francisco. A teacher, former coach, certified outdoor educator, and administrator in the Bay Area for twenty-five years, she has worked with thousands of teenagers. The focus of Shafia's work is on human development, healthy communities, ethics, and social justice. She consults with other schools to create programs and leads teachers to develop and present curricula on a variety of topics. Committed to service, Shafia has been on six educational nonprofit boards and honored by the San Francisco Giants with the Isabelle Lemon Community Spirit Award of 2018 for her work with Aim High, a program that expands opportunities for students from low-income neighborhoods and their teachers through tuition-free summer learning enrichment.