Jamila Hammami
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Jamila Hammami
Jamila Hammami (they/them) is a grassroots community organizer, scholar, strategist, resistance archivist, trainer, & facilitator.
Jamila’s writing and research focus on human rights, race, LGBTQI/PLHIV communities, migration, political economy, empire, fascism, surveillance, labor, community organizing, movement strategy, resistance, borders/ boundaries, and carceral studies.
A Sundance Creative Change and an Opportunity Agenda Communications Institute alum, Jamila is a consultant who focuses on political strategy, communications strategy, research, facilitation, and training to build People Power.
Jamila is a National Organizing and Research Director defending activists, organizers, and marginalized communities experiencing attacks on their Civil Liberties and First Amendment Rights and a Frederick Douglass 200 Bicentennial Abolitionist Honoree.
Resistance Archiving: Reflections on the IMMPrint Detention Stories Project.
Shull, T. & Hammami, J. (2024). Resistance Archiving: Reflections on the IMMPrint Detention Stories Project. A. Aldama & J. Ordaz (Eds.). Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump’s Reign of Terror. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Co-Authored Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter
A Roundtable on Environmental Injustice and Border Abolition.
Cohen, Crow-Willard, Dutta Gupta, Hammami, Jozef, Sacco, Shull, Walker, Wane, Watman, Wheatley. (2023). Special Issue: Alternatives to the Anthropocene: A Roundtable on Environmental Injustice and Border Abolition. Radical History Review, 2023(145).
Co-Authored Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition
Hammami, J. (2020). Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition. K. Chávez & E. Luibhéid (Eds.), Queer and Trans Immigrations: Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation. Part III: Resisting/Refusing, Chapter 9: Bridging Immigration Justice and Prison Abolition. Dissident Feminist Series. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Invited Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter