Malik Wade Pressure: From FBI Fugitive to Freedom Black Red Book

MALIK WADE has lived three lives. As a teenager, he was an enterprising drug dealer. As a young man, he was a fugitive from the FBI & eventually a prison inmate. As an adult, Malik transformed his life to become a mentor, author, entrepreneur, & the executive director of Scholastic Interest Group (SIG). Malik Wade was born & raised in low-income housing in San Francisco during the 1980s at the peak of the crack cocaine epidemic that swept through America's inner cities. Malik was a good student & superior athlete, but his life would change forever when he sold his first rock of crack cocaine at the age of 15. Over the next two decades, Malik would experience a turbulent, yet amazing, personal transformation. Malik is a leading voice for youth & is spearheading a national youth mentoring movement to help save the lives of young people in inner cities & underprivileged communities. Malik is a thought leader whose story of personal transformation has motivated & inspired many. In 1993, Malik was put on the FBI’s wanted list, which resulted in him being a fugitive for seven years. He was subsequently arrested & served a fourteen-year federal prison term for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Today, he is the founder & executive director of SIG, a non-profit mentoring program that works with at-risk youth. Malik speaks at universities, such as Stanford, UC Berkeley, & Cal State University, San Francisco, as well as at juvenile halls & high schools across the nation.