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A voice of leadership
in housing equity
and diversity
B y C a t i e J o y c e - B u l a y
N O N P RO F I T
Adilah Muhammad
President and Founder
Third Place
No one was really
understanding that
BIPOC folks were not
experiencing the same
quality of life as their
white counterparts.
A
dilah Muhammad of Lewiston
is president and founder of the
ird Place, the first coworking
space for BIPOC Mainers, and has been
a voice of leadership in housing equity
and BIPOC advocate for over a decade.
She owns a strategic planning
and research consulting firm called
Scorecard that specializes in inter-orga-
nizational collaboration in nonprofits
and co-owns a real estate investment
company with her husband. Currently
the program committee chair for the
Maine Community Foundation, she has
taken on leadership roles in many non-
profits, including Raise-Op Housing
Cooperative, downtown neighborhood
organizations in Lewiston, L/A Arts
and the Maine Women's Fund.
