Najah Muhammad

Najah Muhammad is a lifelong Clevelander with a long history of service to community based nonprofits. Najah has worked within several of Cleveland’s Federally Qualified Health Centers and most recently within the SUD recovery community. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University with a certificate in Entrepreneurship and completed the Master of Public Administration at Cleveland State University with a concentration in Nonprofit Management.

At People's Budget Cleveland, a fiscally sponsored project of Cleveland Owns, she’ll be running the PB Pilot, in which residents of one Cleveland neighborhood will design a People’s Budget process, propose ideas, and then select the ideas they want to fund. In other words, they bring democracy to life at a time that could hardly be needed more.

Making wellness accessible to all has always been a passion and lifestyle for Najah. She is self-proclaimed Women’s Wellness Warrior, holding certifications from a carefully curated catalog of Diasporic Black Women in birth work, reiki (Level II), yoga (CYT-200) and various coaching theories. Najah has completed training in Peer Support supervision and is a licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant through the State of Ohio (CDCA.179284).

Najah is a graduate of the Neighborhood Leadership Development Program and the Executive Leadership Development Experience at CWRU’s Weatherhead School of Management where she has further honed her skills in resonant leadership. Najah sits on the Community Advisory Board for the Adolescent Sleep Study at Case and the Board of Directors for The Living Truth Center for Better Living.