Rasheed Shabazz is a multimedia journalist and researcher. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelors in African American Studies and Political Science, with a minor in City and Regional Planning. Rasheed was most recently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, focusing on the establishment and operation of Black student news publications across the UC System. He is founder and currently editor-in-chief of The ABC Movement, a UC wide publication. He was also online editor for UC Berkeley's Onyx Express, a 20-year-old student publication. As a Gilman Scholar, Rasheed studied Swahili in Tanzania. As a McNair Scholar, his research focused on urban history and politics of higher education, focusing on the relocation of Oakland's Merritt College in the 1960s. His undergraduate thesis explored the history of housing discrimination against African Americans in his hometown of Alameda, CA. He previously studied at College of Alameda and Laney College in Oakland.
