Malik Khalid is an Atlanta native, the grandson of Jesse A. Blackshear the first Black elected official from East Savannah, a Dekalb county school system graduate, a son, a friend, and most of all a student. Malik has an intense desire to learn, perfect and execute, which led him to train and practice with Bikram’s top students teachers like Jolin Conine, Jared McCann founder of JM Vinyasa, and Carmen Aguilar founder of Cyoga. Malik founded AMADOR, a community yoga program in 2019 dedicated to expanding access to yoga. Since inception the brand has partnered with Google, My Black is Beautiful, Human Rights Campaign, Weight Watchers and more.