Chief Development Officer
Bilal Tahlib Ali
Bilal Tahlib Ali grew up in the streets of Oakland, California. Like many young African American men raised in the inner city, he succumbed to a life of crime as a means of survival. Eventually, his lifestyle caught up with him. In 1998, he was arrested and sentenced to 75 years to life for bank robbery. While incarcerated he would discover Islam which would provide him with a greater sense of purpose and allow him to become a community leader amongst his fellows. In 2022, after undergoing a transformative prison experience, he was resentenced and released. He currently assumes the Chief Development Officer position for the UBFSF.
Media & Marketing
Maurice Wilson
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Maurice has a bachelors degree in Business Management and a Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership. He also spent 10 years in the Army and did one tour in Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom. He now works for the Minnesota Government in Education Department as well as serving as a Co-Chair for a Statewide Employee Resource Group called Equity Justice Black Caucus. He also is currently volunteering for a non-profit in the role of media and marketing communications manager. He proudly serves the community and believes in community building. He holds events celebrating Black Excellence.
Aye’lesha Gibson
Aye’lesha Gibson is a recent graduate in film and digital media with a concentration in production from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was born and raised in Tampa, Florida; upon graduating high school, she enlisted in the US Army, active duty, as a 68W, Combat Medic, serving from 2012-2015. She moved to California in 2016 and attended College of San Mateo where she received an Associates of Arts in Electronic Media and Broadcasting in 2018. She completed a summer internship in 2019 at ITVS, an organization which funds and presents documentaries on public television. She is passionate about using media as a platform to incite necessary conversations and action within the community, and a staunch advocate for prison reform.
Kendle White
Kendle White is a writer and character animation film artist in Los Angeles, California. She is passionate about using her skills to emphasize important social justice topics. In 2021, she earned her bachelor’s in Entertainment Design with honors at the Art Center College of Design in San Bernardino, following the release of her first short film. She currently resides as the UBFSF Art & Film Director.
Regional Coordinators
Muwakkil Hakeem
Muwakkil Hakeem
Born Raymond Jackson Jr., Muwakkil, is no stranger to the urban life and the justice system. Both played a major role in him becoming the man he is today. He started doing music as a outlet of how he seen life and became an amazing artist and today holds the monarch “The Professor Of HipHop.” But thats not what makes Muwakkil unique. His father had been locked up in prison since he was a year old, but no matter what the circumstances was, they always kept a very close bond as his father strived effortlessly to prove his innocence and one day be returned to his family.
Muwakkil join the UBFSF as an youth advocate and mentor to children so as to educate them about urban life in inner cities and how the justice system effects us as a whole.
Sadly, his father passed away in prison in 2018, due to medical neglect from prison staff. He was 58 years old.
Accounting
Kohley McCargo
Kohley McCargo
is a Contract Specialist with Indian Health Services in Oklahoma City. She has a Masters in Business Administration. One of her passions evolves from her volunteer service with the UBFSF and Sister Love Community Outreach in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
Sister Love is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering, improving, promoting, inspiring, and advancing the Okmulgee Community, young and old alike.
Kohley loves spending time with her son and supporting him in anyway possible. She enjoys family, friends, and relaxing and living a peaceful life.
She manages the UBFSF financials.
Get In Touch
United Black Family Scholarship Foundation
P.O. Box 862
Bristow OK 74010