Salimah Salaam has extensive experience in non-profit and corporate management. She has over twenty years of experience in financial management, organizational development and community base training in financial planning, investments and community base fundraising.

Hailing from a varied business background that spans nearly two decades, her experience includes managing a holistic health clinic to a management stint at Citibank. Salimah brings a strong sense of administrative and fiscal management to Praxis.

Salimah was nominated from Prudential Financial as one of the top new business agent for her success in developing a simplified financial analysis program to ensure financial continuity for low to moderate families and African American business owners. She conducted over 50 presentations in locate churches and libraries on financial planning.

Salimah developed, coordinated and implemented an academic skills curriculum at PG Community College entitled "Finance for Realtors” that focuses on purchasing homes and getting financial assistance through the use of FHA, Community Home Buyers, VA and First Time Homebuyers programs for minority homeowners in the Washington area.

In 1995, she worked as the financial manager to overseer the national coalition-organizing project at the Million Man’s March medical office in Washington, D.C. It was community collaboration of $400,000 dollars of in-kind medical services, supplies, and housing from 600 Doctors and nurses across the nation, working with health institutions of the Washington, DC and 500 men and women of the Black Firefighters of America.

She is a Washington, DC native with a love of mathematics and numbers. She completed her masters’ degree as Vice President of Student Government from the University of the District of Columbia and the first black women to complete the Howard University’s banking program. Salimah has established herself as of the few African American women in the male dominated world of finance. Her poise and polish business savvy makes her an effective alternative to the aggressive nature of the business.