Ustadh Zachary King

Zachary A King is a product of the Garden State. He grew up in northern NJ and converted to Islam in 1996. He majored in Nutrition at RU and was greatly influenced by his company in the New Brunswick area during his college years and 20’s. Since graduation, he has become a teacher, gone back for his social work masters degree and currently works in the Newark area school system.  Additionally he is an in-home intensive community counselor for young men. He is wholeheartedly dedicated to urban education and uplift. He is currently spending a year in The Gambia, as an administrator for HORAYA Academy an International Islamic School founded by Ustadha Ieasha Prime. Islamically, he is moderately proficient in recitation of Quran and singing. ‘The dream is to employ, everything about me, what I was once ashamed of, loved, struggled to place and covet, to transform the soul and liberate humanity’.