Zain Murdock is the Brand & Content Associate at the National Health Law Program (NHeLP).

Before joining NHeLP, Zain was the Senior Writer for PushBlack’s Justice program, and co-President of media union PushBlack Workers United. There, for five years, they interrogated pressing intersections with the U.S. criminal legal system, from racial and disability justice to gendered and environmental oppression. Zain has contributed work to other advocacy organizations in the D.M.V. area, including Rising for Justice (formerly D.C. Law Students in Court), Dissenters, and the Washington-Baltimore News Guild. Zain is also a member of the Washington Association of Black Journalists.

From written communications and visual design to journalism and creative writing, Zain explores justice issue areas across forms of expression. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University and is currently working on a poetry manuscript about spiders, inspired in part by Nikki Giovanni’s ‘Allowables.’