Fatima is the inaugural and current Chair of the Greater Mattapan Neighborhood Council. She is a leader in her community, and one of the most effective and diligent advocates for transportation and greater environmental equity throughout the City. But most importantly, Fatima doesn’t just talk the talk; she walks the walk every weekend, leading community walks up and down Blue Hill Ave. to keep residents knowledgeable and engaged in their communities as well. Her unwavering work to ensure transportation equity for entire communities, combined with her fierce dedication towards a greener Boston make her an inspiration to those in service, and a passionate, dedicated, and conscientious mentor.

Fatima strives with others, to build out an organizational structure that can sustain itself, support residents and their civic associations to obtain the best possible outcomes from both public and private development opportunities; collaborate with other members to develop educational models where individuals and civic associations learn how to understand zoning to achieve proactive measures instead of reactionary to development.  She states that "a key element that must be immediately addressed is how to work with both the businesses and the city and state to develop beyond Mattapan Square; any meaningful change must address both development, transportation and environmental protection to ensure that opportunities, both economic and housing are not drawn away from our Greater Mattapan zoning area. It will require us to not regurgitate systems that were never meant to sustain our community."