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Malika McKinley Cox Consulting
Malika McKinley Cox
Malika is a longtime peacebuilder, truth-teller, and restorative justice leader with over 20 years of experience working in nonprofits and grassroots movements around the world. She holds graduate degrees in International Law and Diplomacy, Conflict Resolution, and Practical Theology, and has studied at places such as Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Trinity College Dublin, Regent University, and Harvard Divinity School. Her work brings together deep academic knowledge and lived, hands-on wisdom.
Malika has been involved in peace and justice research and practices in Northern Ireland, Boston, Oklahoma and Jerusalem. Her research on digital peacebuilding earned her the James Haire Dissertation Award. She’s also worked with organizations such as The Spero Project, which supports new neighbors in Oklahoma City in refugee resettlement, and The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Boston.
In response to years of community work and a deep calling for restorative justice, Malika founded MEND, a nonprofit in Oklahoma City focused on peacemaking and community repair through dialogue, healing, and spiritual connection.
In Spring 2025, she served as the Activist-in-Residence at the University of Oklahoma’s Center for Social Justice, where she led workshops and taught about peacebuilding and justice.
Malika is also a skilled facilitator who leads workshops on embodied leadership, spiritual growth, and community healing. She consults with organizations and justice systems, helping them move toward truth, repair, and compassion.
Professional Background
Malika Cox Consultant - Consult for Individuals, Organizations around Conflict Resolution, Restorative Justice Practices, Cultivating Belonging: Non-Profits, Oklahoma Women’s Coalition, Lilyfield, Americorp Participants, Foundations for Liberating Minds, Mental Health of Oklahoma, Churches, and CityCare OKC
Founder and Executive Director of Mend - Mend is a community of peacemakers and restorative justice practitioners engaging Oklahoma City, the world to seek truth, restorative justice, healing, and the common good.
Flourish OKC - flourish fosters collaboration among community builders, peacemakers, and culture creators in Oklahoma City. Together, we're reshaping the landscape of creative partnership.
The Oklahomans For Grace Campaign, Project Manager - The Oklahomans For Grace Campaign stands with faith leaders, community advocates, and change agents to champion a moratorium on the death penalty in Oklahoma. We're committed to implementing the recommendations of the Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission to ensure fairness, innocence, and humane treatment.
Flourish OKC’s Restorative Justice Fellowship Administrator - a 9-month transformative journey that connects restorative justice practitioners to one another and integrates them within the Flourish OKC community. Together, we're fostering sustainability and readiness for future endeavors in restorative justice.
On Being’s Social Healing Fellowship, Fellow - The fellowship accompanies a small cohort of ten leaders who are initiating and fostering social healing efforts in their local communities, with attention to those devoted to facets of social healing work that address deep fractures in our public life, particularly in terms of engaging racial healing work and/or addressing rural/urban divides.
The Clonard Monastery Peace and Reconciliation Mission Internship - The mission is to awaken the Church and the world to the call of God to bring peace to the Earth, respecting the dignity of each person, enabling them to contribute to the common good, and enhancing in our society the longed-for culture of encounter, bonding, and partnership. The location of Clonard Monastery on the "borderline" between the Catholic Falls and the Protestant Shankill placed it at the centre of the deep-seated historical conflict. The Clonard Peace and Reconciliation Mission continues to work and pray for the reconciliation and unity of all Christ’s disciples.
Educational Background
Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University in December of 2023, focusing on Global Governance and International Organizations. Fletcher facilitated a course at Harvard Divinity School - Reparation as a Spiritual Practice.
Master of Philosophy in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation at Trinity College Dublin, Irish School of Ecumenics, in 2017
Master of Arts in Practical Theology at Regent University in 2016
Bachelor of Arts, the University of Oklahoma, Administrative Leadership, 2010
Introduction to Conflict Mediation Trinity College Dublin, March 2017