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

For 20 years, Jamila’s cross-movement organizing, teaching, and writing have bridged interconnected topics and struggles, including border and carceral studies and abolition; anti-imperialism/militarism; political economy; racial, immigrant, and queer justice; community organizing, movements, and resistance; and bridging the prison-industrial complex, military-industrial complex, and border abolition movements.

A Sundance Creative Change and an Opportunity Agenda Communications Institute Alum, Jamila is the author and co-author of many scholarly chapters, the producer, co-host, and a member of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast Collective, a steering committe member of the Open Borders Conference, and has taught and trained thousands of people over the past 15 years globally on immigrant and racial justice, prison industrial complex and border abolition, LGBTQI+/PLHIV migratory communities, community organizing and movements, and resistance to build people power. You can learn more about Jamila here.