Organizer. Facilitator. Educator. Artist.

Zakia M. Elliott is a visionary working within the intersections of the environmental justice, climate justice, and food and land justice movements.

Upcoming Exhibition: Dreams, Nightmares & Everything In Between

Dreams, Nightmares & Everything in Between opens Thursday, May 14, 2026 at Luster Gallery + Studio with an opening reception from 6–9 PM.

An evening exploring fantasy, fear, memory, and the spaces in between through the work of Varvàra Fern, Kelly Seim , Mel Rosen, DeVaughn Jerrell, Leah Pandiscia, Gabi Madrid, Zakia M. Elliott, Marius Andres, Emily Smith, Maryam Adib, Chanelle René, Brady Pappas, D'Mia Britton, Aeva McLellan, Chelsey Luster, Margaux McAllister, Ozodinobi Onyeabor.

Curated by founder and director Chelsey Luster. Exhibition on view through July 11.

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"Zakia M. Elliott, who had two pieces on display titled “She Came to Me Free” and “Anima Mundi: A ReIntegration,” is also a local environmental activist. She’s always been an artist, but has been trying to bring her artistic skills back to the forefr

"The featured artists include ASHY ARTT, Kameo Chambers, Prince De León, Temple Douglass, Keiko El, Zakia M. Elliott, Jermaine Ollivierre, Malayah Reynolds, Jazlyne Sabree, Tisha Taylor and Levester Williams."

Zakia Elliott, Sonia Galiber, and Suad Mana review six critical resources have helped guide us through the inevitable messiness from shaping the future while simultaneously dismantling the existing conditions. Published in The Land, Food, and Freedom

This piece is inspired by Zakia Elliott's collaborative work with Soil Generation and their forthcoming publication, "Soul ReIntegration: An Artistic Self Exploration & Healing Journey Curriculum Guidebook." She engaged in her personal ritual of taro

Zakia M. Elliott is announced to be a 2025 cohort member of the Mural Arts Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists.

Zakia Elliott, during the Climate Justice Alliance's 2024 Black Caucus Jubilee: "Nothing can stop the water! ...and that's how I feel about us."

Zakia Elliott and Sonia Galiber of Soil Generation, featured in "Future Visions Lab" documentary, Episode 6: Environmental Justice (2024)

Zakia Elliott, Soil Generation is awarded the 2022 Sustain PHL Sustainability Next Gen Award

“Racial justice and transit justice, they’re all tied up together,” said Elliott. “Transit issues are an environmental justice issue.”

The oral histories collected from the workers of AFSCME DC 33 Local 427 is a collaboration with Professor Alison Kenner of Drexel University’s Philadelphia Health & Environment Ethnography Lab and Zakia Elliott of Philadelphia Climate Works

“The issues that we’ve been talking about in the 1860s are still the issues that we’re talking about today,” said Zakia Elliott, coordinator of the Philadelphia Climate Works coalition and the lead organizer of the event. “Who is able to ride our tro