Jamila Hammami is a cross-movement organizer, writer, educator, independent public border abolitionist scholar-activist/organizer, movement and narrative strategist, resistance archivist, and a Frederick Douglass 200 Bicentennial Honoree.

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

Jamila’s scholarly writing and research encompass a broad range of interconnected topics, including migration, border and carceral studies, race and resistance, community organizing and movements, political economy, empire, militarism, fascism, surveillance, labor, and LGBTQI/PLHIV communities.

A Sundance Creative Change and an Opportunity Agenda Communications Institute alum, Jamila focuses on strategic defense, movement, narrative, and communications strategy, dedicating themselves to building People Power to make fundamental change. They are a proud member of the Resistant Communiques Podcast Collective and the Open Borders Conference Steering Committee (on pause).