Malia Bouattia is the Black Students' officer at the National Union of Students, representing students of African, Asian, Arab, Caribbean, and South American descent from across the UK in further and higher education; the largest constituency of Black students in Europe. Malia also sat on the national executive council of the NUS for two years prior to this role. She is the co-founder of the Black Women's Forum UK, which has hosted three national conferences for women of colour. She is also one of the co-founders of Muslimah Pride - a group of Muslim women who initiated international action against Islamophobic and Orientalist depictions of Muslim women.