NASW Board of Directors
Vice President

Fatima Salman, LLMSW

Fatima Salman is a macro social worker and community organizer. She serves on the ENGAGE team at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and works with communities and organizations in Wayne and Washtenaw counties to increase their capacity and resources to meet their goals. Through the work of ENGAGE, Salman runs the Employment Equity Action and Learning Collaborative, a group of 65+ stakeholders in Detroit that works together to leverage resources and foster just and equitable economic development solutions for individuals in the city of Detroit.

Throughout her high school and undergraduate years, Salman held leadership roles in national youth organizations that were centered around youth development and empowerment. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in 2000 and taught language and linguistics at a private school. During a three-year period in which she lived in Madison, Wisconsin, she served as principal of a local elementary school. Later, she returned to Michigan and completed her MSW at the University of Michigan. She worked as the Executive Director for the Muslim Students Association- National, and merged her expertise of youth development with her macro management skills to steer the organization through its period of transition.

In 2017, she hosted a radio show on a local station, “Between the Lines.” She completed her three-year tenure as president of the NASW Michigan chapter, and concurrently held the position as chair of the NASW Council of Chapter Presidents. Salman is a LEO Lecturer for the University of Michigan- School of Social Work. She serves on the board of the Guidance Center in Detroit, Michigan, and is a Racial Equity Fellow with Detroit Equity Action Lab. She also serves on the Community Advisory Panel for Detroit Public Television and was appointed by Governor Whitmer to serve on the Growing Michigan Together Council Higher Education Workgroup.