Jamila Hammami

Jamila Hammami is a Tunisian-Texan cross-movement grassroots community organizer, scholar, writer, researcher, movement and communications strategist, consultant, and a Frederick Douglass 200 Bicentennial Abolitionist Honoree.

For twenty years, Jamila’s organizing work has focused on anti-imperialism/ militarism, human rights, racial, migratory, and queer justice; and bridging the prison-industrial complex and border abolition movements.

Jamila’s scholarly writing and research cover an expansive range of interconnected topics, including human rights, race, MENA region, migration, political economy, empire, militarism, fascism, surveillance, labor, community organizing, movement strategy, borders/ boundaries, LGBTQI/PLHIV communities, and carceral studies.

A Sundance Creative Change and an Opportunity Agenda Communications Institute alum, Jamila focuses on movement, narrative, and communications strategy, dedicating themselves to building People Power to make fundamental change.