Abdimalik Buul, Ed.D currently serves as the Executive Director and C.E.O of Elevated Consulting. Additionally, Dr. Buul is currently in the midst of a five year role as Visiting Executive of Institutional Equity, Innovation, and Strategic Impact at the California Community College Chancellor’s office. During his tenure he has assisted in ensuring equal employment opportunities and initiatives were connected to the classroom for the largest system of higher education in the nation comprising over 116 colleges and 2.1 million students. He is the co-chair of the Statewide Equal Employment Opportunity Diversity Action Committee (EEODAC) and oversaw its deployment of the 2022 EEO Best Practices handbook & 2023 ten point plan to diversify faculty. Under his leadership he crafted a funding allocation for $20 million-dollars in EEO funding to improve hiring practices and technical assistance to integrate student-centered design and campus climate. In 2024 Dr. Buul received the DEIAA Champion award from the Association of Chief Human Resource officers (ACHRO)
In California, Dr. Buul has developed a framework to engage worker represented organizations as builders of the future of higher education. Dr. Buul is currently leading a transformative passion pilot project connecting low wage earners and working adults from labor to college programs that will propel them to livable wages in healthcare, tech, and other emerging industries. Prior to this role he served as the Transfer and Career Center Director at San Diego City college connecting transfer and workforce opportunities to students in emerging and established career pathways. He also worked as a program specialist at the San Diego Workforce partnership overseeing the deployment of regional Workforce investment act funds in the eastern region of San Diego during the recession recovery of 2010.
Dr.Buul continuously provide guidance on statewide regulations and its successful implementation to districts. In 2024, he is spearheading the redevelopment and redeployment of the statewide job board known as the registry to ensure equitable access and employment for millions of job seekers. He is a scholar practitioner with over 10 publications in the fields of Diversity Equity Inclusion Accessibility and Antiracism. He has a keen focus on racial equity and an asset based approach on countering racial discrimination.
As an active community leader, he serves on the following boards & roles:
He was a faculty member at Southwestern College in the following roles:
- Coordinator of the Umoja program
- Faculty Chair of the Black Alliance
- Academic senate senator for the School of Counseling
- Chair of the Political Action Committee for SCEA.
Dr. Buul is the recipient of:
- 2024 DEIA Champion award
- 2019 Golden Apple award Faculty of the Year
- 2012 Ocean leaf emerging leader award.
He’s a published researcher and scholar practitioner who uses justice and activism as his guiding pedagogy for change. His areas of expertise are:
- Diversity Equity & Inclusion
- Curriculum trauma
- Black Males Success
- Restorative Justice Practices
- Organizational Development and Management
- Capacity building
- Strategic Planning
Known as an international keynote speaker and innovative dynamic leader from Africa to the US he shares his message of empathy & love baked in courage & conviction. Dr. Buul is also a lecturer at San Diego State University (SDSU) where he teaches Restorative Practices and Conflict Transformation to students in the Advanced Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Recovery & Trauma-informed Care MA in Education with concentration in Counseling program. His most important role & title in life is being a proud father to his six year old daughter Salma and has been married to his wife Sudi for over ten years.
