About – Ma Mukti

Ma Mukti: Powering Movement Alignment Through Embodied Leadership

Who We Are

Ma Mukti (M2) is a national ecosystem led by and for women and gender-expansive people—especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous women of color—who are shifting the very foundation of what leadership in our movements looks like, feels like, and delivers. We are organizers, strategists, healers, facilitators, and culture workers. We are the backbones of change—too often invisible, under-resourced, and left behind. But no more.

Ma Mukti exists to reclaim leadership as a liberatory force—rooted in healing, love, and political clarity. Through rigorous programs, embodied practice, and collective action, we grow and sustain the leaders who sustain our movements. And we do so with joy, brilliance, and an unshakeable belief in our own humanity.

Our Mission

We advance systemic change by resourcing and elevating the leadership of women—especially women of color and gender-expansive people—to align powerfully across movements. We nurture new and profound ways of being with ourselves and one another—creating cultures of healing, solidarity, and action.

We are building an ecosystem of leadership that is joyful, embodied, and rooted in justice, wholeness, and interdependence.

Our Vision

We envision a future in which Black, Brown, and Indigenous women and gender-expansive leaders are fully resourced, deeply rooted in their cultures and communities, and hold real political power. In this future, our movements are sustained by thriving leadership ecosystems that honor dignity, care, and collective humanity.

We’re not interested in just plugging people into broken systems—we’re seeding a new one.

Support the leadership of the most marginalized groups in our movement.

Support the most consequential leaders!

UPDATED: M2’s MISSION & VISION

Ma Mukti (M2) was founded in 2022 to honor and carry on the legacy of American-Bangladeshi philanthropist, artist, and former Bangladeshi Member of Parliament, Monsura “Mukti” Mohiuddin. Ma Mukti’s purpose is to support and advance the leadership of women, centering women and gender expansive people of color organizers, healers, movement catalysts and change agents, who exist and work at the frontlines of the most pressing issues of our time, whose work and contributions are often unsupported, unseen, and devalued.

Our mission is to advance systemic change by resourcing and elevating the leadership of women- especially women of color and gender expansive people- to acutely align across movements. We do this by nurturing new and profound ways of being, creating cultures of healing, solidarity, and action. We seed new ways of leading, centered in joy and love, that are rooted in wellbeing and wholeness, justice, and interdependence.

We envision a future where women and gender expansive leaders—especially Black, Brown, Indigenous women of color—lead our movements with full resourcing, cultural rootedness, and political power. In this future, collective self-determination has taken root and movements thrive through sustainable leadership ecosystems that honor, dignity, care and our collective humanity.

Donate to our campaign →

Legacy

Monsura “Mukti” Mohiuddin was an artist, philanthropist, and Bangladeshi politician. As our mother, she was our love, light, and guide.

She was the first child of the esteemed politician and father of the Bangladesh Independence struggle, Mashiur Jadu Miah Rahman and the highly revered Sabera Rahman.

Mrs. Mohiuddin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Dhaka University. Soon after, she was married to former Ambassador to the United Nations, His Excellency A.H.G Mohiuddin, and she left Dhaka to serve Bangladesh alongside her husband as a consummate host and representative in Australia, Hong Kong, Washington D.C., Saudi Arabia, and New York.

As an elected Member of Parliament in Bangladesh, Mrs. Mohiuddin made history in becoming the first woman elected to the Nilpharmi-1 District in 1989, where she served the abjectly poor through progressive legislation, food, clothing, and education. In the district she represented, a school was established in her honour and for her service, called the Mukti School.

As the first child of the Father of the Independent struggle in Bangladesh and a true revolutionary, Mrs. Mohiuddin was aptly named Mukti, meaning liberation.

Her legacy is continued by her family here in the United States and in Bangladesh.

SOCIETAL CONTEXT TO WOMEN OF COLOR LEADERSHIP

Why we do what we do & what our work seeks to transform

OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

LOVE

Critical to all the things, self-love allows us to see ourselves with the confidence and gentleness required to create a world that is just. A just world requires us to love each other.

TRUST

When the world tells us lies about us, we have to know ourselves and trust in each other, to see & look beyond the tropes & stereotypes that keep us in a falsely unchanging world.

COMMITMENT

To ourselves that a just world is possible. Commitment to each other to actualize a just world.

CONNECTION

Essential to human existence. Connection to self facilitates self-awareness, the foundation for transformation. Connection to others is the foundation of community; required for creation of a just world.

ALIGNMENT

Contentment & joy is possible when we are a living embodiment of our values.

INNOVATION

Our lived experiences impart many lessons and we intentionally create spaces for us to find and celebrate new ways of creating a just world.

TRANSFORMATION

Changing ourselves is changing the world.