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

For two decades, Hammami’s organizing, teaching, and writing have centered on three primary themes: challenging systems of control, including border and carceral studies, abolition, and the prison and military industrial complexes; advocating for justice across race, immigration status, and queer identities; and supporting community organizing, social movements, and resistance.

Hammami is a movement and communications strategist specializing in combating deportations and defending dissent. Currently, Hammami serves as a strategist and organizer for Deportation Defense Campaigns (DDCs) in New York State.

A Sundance Creative Change and Opportunity Agenda Communications Institute alum, Hammami has authored and co-authored numerous scholarly chapters. Hammami is a co-founder, co-host, and collective member of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast, a digital repository of People’s and Resistance History.

Hammami is a co-founder and collective member of the Liberation Movement Lab, a digital movement school that expands community access to Popular and Movement Education beyond United States neoliberal frameworks. Over the past 17 years, Hammami has trained thousands of individuals globally in immigrant and racial justice, the prison industrial complex and border abolition, LGBTQI+/PLHIV migratory communities, community organizing, and strategies for building collective power.

Hammami’s recent scholarship includes a co-authored roundtable article in the special issue Alternatives to the Anthropocene (Issue 145, Radical History Review, Duke University Press, 2023) titled “A Roundtable on Environmental Injustice and Border Abolition,” a co-authored chapter titled “Resistance Archiving: Reflections on the IMMPrint Detention Stories Project” in Resistance and Abolition in the Borderlands: Confronting Trump’s Reign of Terror (A. Aldama & J. Ordaz, Eds., University of Arizona Press, 2024), and a forthcoming solo-authored article in Decolonial Dispatches (Sociologists for Palestine, 2026) examining the strategic defense campaigns of the 2024 U.S. Palestinian Solidarity Movement, addressing the criminalization of resistance and the state-instituted ICE and migration collateral consequences designed to quell dissent.

Learn more about Jamila here.