Dazia Wallerson serves as the African-American Alliance Manager at CAM. A community organizer, storyteller, and bridge-builder from Brooklyn, NY, she leads with humility, compassion, and a systems lens shaped by lived experience and 12 years of nonprofit training.
Dazia holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work with a minor in Africana Studies from the University at Albany, SUNY, and graduate studies from Texas Christian University, focusing on trauma and community transformation. She has been deeply shaped by motherhood, her passion for a just world, and a thriving future for all.
Preceding CAM, in her involvement with the Leap Forward community organization, Dazia helped develop unity gatherings to bring Black and Jewish communities together to confront antisemitism and racism through authentic connection, cross-cultural values, and shared responsibility.
Dazia has also worked within the Jewish communal world through the Macks Jewish Connection Network, an agency of The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore, where she helped create relationship-based engagement tools and supported a strategic, data-driven culture.
She can be reached at: dazia@combatantisemitism.org
