About us
Kalam means talk (noun) in Arabic.
We’re Iman and Khaldah, two friends with a love for deep conversation. We love to talk with each other and with everyone else. We founded Kalam Consulting to bring our years of experience in the non-profit sector together with our liberatory politics to support mission-driven organizations.
Through Kalam, we developed a practice rooted in dialogue, where we offer our skills in community research and engagement, communications strategies, digital advocacy, and facilitation. We work with non-profits, philanthropy organizations, and progressive local businesses to drive social, transformative change.
Together, we’ll talk, understand your needs, hear about your experience, and build a plan that offers our skills and centres your strengths, capacities, and knowledge.
Get to know us below!
Khaldah Salih
Khaldah Salih is a Sudanese community worker, organizer, and researcher based in Toronto, with over a decade of experience in frontline community work, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
As the Communications Manager at Planned Parenthood Toronto, she developed strategy and messaging focused on reproductive justice and 2SLGBTQ+ youth. She led public education, community outreach, and policy advocacy at the Black Legal Action Centre, focused on combatting systemic anti-Black racism, adding to her years as a frontline worker from the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights, UNHCR Sudan, and grassroots networks. As a community organizer, she fundraises for mutual aid, leads teach-ins and popular education workshops, and builds coalitions rooted in justice and liberation.
Khaldah values work that is enjoyable, so she likes taking time, building out processes, and engaging with all the gifts that a team can bring together.
She holds a BA from McGill University in Political Science and International Development and an MA in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice from the University of British Columbia.
Khaldah is also a practicing ceramicist, passionate baker, and a collector of hobbies. She loves to make things with her hands, bringing an idea to life with skills and time.
Iman Baobeid
Iman Baobeid is a Yemeni communications specialist, artist, and organizer based on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories (Vancouver, BC). She has over a decade of experience supporting mission-driven organizations to use communications as a tool for social change. Iman’s professional experience includes the non-profit and academic sectors, where she has supported organizations such as West Coast LEAF and the BC Civil Liberties Association in developing communications strategies that advance gender, social, and economic justice.
Iman is an avid planner and appreciates getting into the nitty gritty details of tactics and tools that weave storytelling with long-term systems change goals.
She holds a Master of Arts in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Law, and Society from the University of British Columbia.
As an artist, Iman’s work is embedded in the archives – living, oral, and written – as she seeks to bring the stories of her ancestors and community to life. Iman is also an aspiring quilter and loves new hobbies that connect hands and heart. She loves spending time outdoors with her toddler, who is developing an impressive stick and rock collection.