Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard is counsel to Black Entertainment Television, For eight and half years Ms. Sharif-Drinkard practiced law as a corporate entertainment attorney at MTV Networks, where her most recent position was vice president, senior counsel for the Nickelodeon division.

Ms. Sharif-Drinkard has made a career of challenging the status quo and giving back to her community. In 1989 she brought suit against the New York State Department of Education and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) Board in Sharif vs. The New York State Department of Education, where she was the victorious litigant.

Ms. Sharif-Drinkard has traveled nationally and internationally, speaking to students, politicians, clergy, interfaith organizations, corporate heads, and marginalized communities. In 1991 she served on Mayor David Dinkins's delegation to South Africa, representing the youth of New York City. While in South Africa she worked with the African National Congress (ANC) on developing a framework for freedom schools. In addition, she addressed audiences in the townships of Soweto, Pretoria and Capetown and was the guest of Nelson and Winnie Mandela.

In 1992 she was chosen by the United Nations as one of twelve scholars from across the United States to serve as a youth ambassador to Russia. Her task was to analyze the social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental challenges of a country undergoing democratization. In 1995 she served as a representative for Muslim American women to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, where she helped to draft the Platform for Action. In 2006 she was a United States delegate to the Iraqi-United States Summit held at the United Nations. In November 2006 she participated in the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Conference in Birmingham, UK, where she participated in discussions on how to engage and empower Muslim communities in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Ms. Sharif-Drinkard received her BA from Columbia University in 1993 and her JD from Fordham University School of Law in 1997; at Fordham she published her legal note, “Female Genital Mutilation: What Does the New Federal Law Really Mean?”