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Malika was born in California to multi racial writers. Moving to Australia at a young age she traveled between the two countries, also spending time living in Europe and Asia. Wollongong, Dharawal land, has been home for the longest and best parts. With a creative flair for story telling she has been writing stories and scripts from a young age, as well as learning instruments and singing. She graduated from the UoW, where she first starting writing and directing short films and theater pieces.
Malika has been an Artist in Residence and celebrant at Tender Funerals since it's beginnings in 2016. For decades, she has taught music, produced dozens of community events, co-written multiple shows and performed at many places, including TEDx, Woodford and National Folk Festivals, Fringe Festivals around Australia, The Sydney Opera House and most recently Avignon Off and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.
A founding member of The Church of the Clitori, which has toured Australia and Internationally, Malika was also a founding member of The Glamma Rays, a heart melting A Capella group. She has written many scripts, most recently a play called "A Gentle Talk About Emotions, Grief & Acceptance for Little Ones” and has recently finished her children's book "Diamonds in the Sky".
An outspoken advocate in bringing awareness about CSA to the greater community, Malika works closely with Women’s groups to speak out against DFV and CSA. A member of the Survivor's College at the National Center for Action Against Child Sexual Abuse, Malika was the first person in Australia to have the name suppression order dropped against a perpetrator of intra-familial child abuse in 2010.
Her life has been full. Malika has been robbed and fended the robber off with a scarf. She has been run over in a dance studio, saving her toddler from the direct path of a speeding car. Malika has been in ocean rips, an orphanage in Hong Kong and was in Berlin when the wall came down. She's given Stevie Wonder a raspberry on the cheek, met Nina Simone who sang one of the songs Malika's Great Aunt Jessie Mae Robinson wrote, and once saw Prince perform in his private LA nightclub. A fan of trivia and games, she has also been on five game shows and won two.
Malika’s 2010 court case against the step father who abused her is the first publicly documented intrafamilial sexual assault cases in New South Wales in which a survivor actively requested the lifting of a suppression order to be named. Her courageous decision helped break the silence surrounding abuse and has inspired other survivors to reclaim their voices.
Malika is mama to three children that she has had in three different decades and two different centuries and lives with a ginger cat named Marzipan.
She relishes connecting communities, building bridges and making a positive difference in people's lives through laughter and song. In 2025 Malika was named Wollongong Citizen of the Year for her advocacy work for children and women.
Malika believes that being of service makes our world a better one and that self healing is a way to world peace.
Malika has been an Artist in Residence and celebrant at Tender Funerals since it's beginnings in 2016. For decades, she has taught music, produced dozens of community events, co-written multiple shows and performed at many places, including TEDx, Woodford and National Folk Festivals, Fringe Festivals around Australia, The Sydney Opera House and most recently Avignon Off and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.
A founding member of The Church of the Clitori, which has toured Australia and Internationally, Malika was also a founding member of The Glamma Rays, a heart melting A Capella group. She has written many scripts, most recently a play called "A Gentle Talk About Emotions, Grief & Acceptance for Little Ones” and has recently finished her children's book "Diamonds in the Sky".
An outspoken advocate in bringing awareness about CSA to the greater community, Malika works closely with Women’s groups to speak out against DFV and CSA. A member of the Survivor's College at the National Center for Action Against Child Sexual Abuse, Malika was the first person in Australia to have the name suppression order dropped against a perpetrator of intra-familial child abuse in 2010.
Her life has been full. Malika has been robbed and fended the robber off with a scarf. She has been run over in a dance studio, saving her toddler from the direct path of a speeding car. Malika has been in ocean rips, an orphanage in Hong Kong and was in Berlin when the wall came down. She's given Stevie Wonder a raspberry on the cheek, met Nina Simone who sang one of the songs Malika's Great Aunt Jessie Mae Robinson wrote, and once saw Prince perform in his private LA nightclub. A fan of trivia and games, she has also been on five game shows and won two.
Malika’s 2010 court case against the step father who abused her is the first publicly documented intrafamilial sexual assault cases in New South Wales in which a survivor actively requested the lifting of a suppression order to be named. Her courageous decision helped break the silence surrounding abuse and has inspired other survivors to reclaim their voices.
Malika is mama to three children that she has had in three different decades and two different centuries and lives with a ginger cat named Marzipan.
She relishes connecting communities, building bridges and making a positive difference in people's lives through laughter and song. In 2025 Malika was named Wollongong Citizen of the Year for her advocacy work for children and women.
Malika believes that being of service makes our world a better one and that self healing is a way to world peace.
