Maryum Ali
About Maryum Ali
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A Life of Impact: My Journey in Social Services
Maryum Ali brings over fifteen years of frontline experience in social services, where she has dedicated her career to youth development and gang prevention. Having served as a Case Manager, Program Director, and Regional Manager for the City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office of Gang Reduction & Youth Development, Maryum offers a compelling and heartfelt look at working with communities facing systemic disparities and cycles of violence. Through vivid storytelling and practical insight, she shares best practices for building authentic partnerships with at-risk youth, helping them discover purpose and harness their inner resilience. Her message is both a call to action and a guide for those working toward equitable and compassionate community change.
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Ali’s daughter takes up the ‘fight’ for Parkinson’s families
Six years before world champion boxer Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, his young daughter noticed he was slurring his speech. It was around the time of Ali’s heavyweight championship fight against Leon Spinks. “People thought he was ‘punch drunk’ from boxing,” the daughter, Maryum “May May” Ali, recounted in an interview with Parkinson’s News Today. “In 1978, there was nowhere near the information on Parkinson’s as there is now. A lot of people hadn’t heard of it.”
“Even Muhammad Ali had a learning curve”
“When my father first started exhibiting Parkinson’s symptoms, he was in his second fight with [then heavyweight champion] Leon Spinks in 1978. I actually went to that fight. I was 10 years old, and I noticed his symptoms.” But, says Maryum Ali, eldest daughter of the late US heavyweight legend Muhammad Ali, “no one knew”.
Books by Maryum Ali
“I Shook Up The World, 20th Anniversary Edition” (2024)
In this celebratory 20th anniversary edition of I Shook Up the World, a new generation of kids are introduced to one of the greatest sports legends and most admired men of all time, Muhammad Ali. In this celebratory 20th anniversary edition of I Shook Up the World, a new generation of kids are introduced to one of the greatest sports legends and most admired men of all time, Muhammad Ali.
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