Malik joined the Princeton-Blairstown Center in 2021 as an Experiential Education Facilitator, moving into a Senior Facilitator role in March of 2023. Prior to that he worked as an ESOL teacher at the National Academy Foundation middle school in Baltimore, Maryland where he taught refugee students and those new to the USA. Malik holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the Shintaro Akatsu School of Design at the University of Bridgeport. He is a certified ACCT Level I practitioner and Wilderness First Responder.