Dr. Nidal Karim (she/they) is a Research Director at Social Insights Research. In this role, they oversee the firm’s research and evaluation portfolio, providing strategic and technical leadership to ensure projects are rigorous, values-aligned, and responsive to client and community needs.

Nidal is a community psychologist and evaluation, learning, and strategy consultant, as well as a certified healing justice and liberation coach, pleasure doula, and embodiment practitioner. She supports social justice organizations and changemakers to align their practice with their values, grounded in courage, integrity, and collective care. Her work is rooted in liberatory and decolonial feminist principles and informed by more than 25 years of experience across community-based organizations and international institutions in social justice and public health.

Nidal has led multi-site gender justice and girls’ rights initiatives; participatory and mixed-methods research; evaluation and learning partnerships; and strategy engagements for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in the U.S. and globally. They have led research and evaluation projects organizations such as the Leadership Learning Community, ReFrame, Grantmakers for Southern Progress, Springboard to Opportunities, Girls First Fund, UN Women, Mama Cash, and the Kendeda Fund. They also serve as a mentor with the Leaders in Equitable Evaluation and Diversity (LEEAD) Program.

Nidal lives in Atlanta on the stolen lands of the Muscogee Creek and Cherokee peoples. You will most often find her spending time in nature, deepening her healing justice practices, delighting in food-centered gatherings, and (by their teen’s account) enthusiastically occupying the role of resident positive sexuality educator.