Jamila Hammami

Jamila Hammami is a Texan cross-movement grassroots community organizer, scholar, movement and communications strategist.

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 explore 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 to build People Power.

Jamila works as a movement and narrative strategist defending activists, students, educators, organizers, and marginalized communities experiencing attacks on their First Amendment Rights and a Frederick Douglass 200 Bicentennial Abolitionist Honoree.