Dr. Aliya S. Khizer is a social scientist, research practitioner, and author whose career spans over two decades. Throughout her career, she has strategically and consciously advanced educational, health, and social initiatives for vulnerable populations. Her work focuses on identifying factors that hinder or promote the success of children, youth, and families from vulnerable and underserved populations.

As a child of immigrants, her lived-experiences have directly influenced her design and implementation of ASK Academy Family & Education Center, LLC and its programs. She is particularly interested in how immigrant families adjust to life in the U.S. and how to better harness culturally specific risk and protective factors to ensure their success in navigating the many challenges addressing social determinants of health associated with immigration and assimilation.

As a social scientist specializing in education, social, and health disparities & inequities, she applies her extensive experience in qualitative and quantitative research methods implementing and evaluating the impact of evidence-based and promising-practices as initiatives and policies for marginalized communities.

Moreover, Dr. Khizer's research and practical work has focused on areas such as women's ascension into leadership; bridging disparities in accessibility; improvement of health care and educational service delivery for diverse multigenerational and intergenerational populations; language accessibility with multicultural populations; and incorporating the community's perspective into the design and implementation of community- based initiatives as is evidence in the establishment of ASK Academy Family & Education Center, LLC and its programs.

As a community steward and advocate, Dr. Khizer also provides leadership training and workshops in cohorts on community & civic engagement. In recent years, she has served as a strategic and social & health equity advisor and consultant for private and public agencies. She provides training in cohorts on subject matters such as health and safety; Organizational Development & Change; Neurodivergence and Workplace Safety; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, Accessibility, and Sustainability (DEIBAS); Cultural Humility & Intelligence; Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity-Race, Ethnicity, Ancestry, and Language (SOGI-REAL).