Anita Malik

Anita Malik was a Democratic candidate for Arizona's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020, but lost in the primary. She was also the 2018 Democratic nominee for Arizona's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Malik was born on January 5, 1976, in Kansas City, Missouri, and moved to Arizona when she was seven years old. She earned Bachelor of Science degrees in computer information systems and finance from Arizona State University in 1998, and a Master of Arts in journalism from the University of Southern California in 2002. She served as chief operations officer at ClearVoice, a content technology company in Phoenix, Arizona, from 2013 until resigning in 2107 to run for political office.