WMW Executive Director, Co-Founder and Steering Committee

Abdulai Bah is a New York City–based storyteller, journalist, and educator with more than 15 years of experience. His work has been featured on PRI, ABC Radio National in Australia, The Nation, Pacifica Radio, PBS NewsHour, WNYC, Al Jazeera, and The New York Times’ documentary series The Weekly.

He began his career reporting on communities that are often overlooked. In the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, he traveled to the Gulf Coast to document how residents in New Orleans and Gulfport, Mississippi, were rebuilding their lives. He later worked in Liberia, where he helped train women who survived the civil war to launch a community radio station in Monrovia, giving them the tools to tell their own stories. While there, he also reported on deportees from the United States detained by the Liberian government.

Back in New York, he produced a worker-led radio program on WBAI, where domestic workers, street vendors, taxi drivers, and construction workers shared their experiences after receiving basic radio training through his program.

His work has also been presented through collaborative media projects at institutions such as MIT, IDEO New York, and the White House Office of Science and Technology.

In recent years, Bah has focused more on community-based work. He is involved with the US-African Children’s Fellowship, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit supporting education initiatives across Africa. He also co-founded an African mutual aid network in New York City, where he has helped newly arrived asylum seekers navigate housing, legal processes, and basic services.

He is currently developing a new initiative to organize and support taxi drivers and food delivery workers across the city, building on the same approach that has shaped his work from the beginning: storytelling, trust, and community leadership.