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AT LEAST 350 LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN IN U.S. HOMES AND IT TAKES 21 LANGUAGES
TO REACH 90% OF THE WORLD’S ONLINE AUDIENCE.

Why Jamii?

In Swahili, the word "Jamii" can be translated as "community." We are a Pan-African organization and shared multilingual communications team for movement organizations and movement work.

We provide interpreting, translation, language learning,  consulting & multilingual event planning support in 6 core languages: ASL, English, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Spanish. Our work empowers movement workers to create impactful multilingual spaces in areas that have often operated using one dominant language.

In this community, we are fiercely pro-Black, pro-LGBTQ+ and work to create solidarity economies with our "client" partners.

Our Community: Organizations that frequently reach out to us often work in relation to: LGBTQIA+ and migrant rights, racial justice & Black solidarity, combatting gender-based violence, decolonization, abolition and anti-capitalism, gender and educational equity, political advocacy, voting rights, and more!

Our Vibe: We're a people-first, mission-second, and profit-third kind of organization working to grow an equitable solidarity economy for language workers. A central focus of our work includes promoting language learning in Black-centered spaces. We also prioritize bridging language barriers between Black US-born folx, Afro-Latines, Africans, Afro-Caribbeans, and other people of African descent via our flagship programs, Language & Diaspora and the Simultaneous Interpreting Clinic.

Mission

Our mission is to shift the "one-language-fits-all" approach to building movements for social justice while centering the needs of people of African descent.

Vision

Our big vision is to create a multilingual, transnational community of Black, Pan-African and pro-Black people unified for collective liberation.

Values

  • Community & Family
  • Freedom & Liberation
  • Joy
  • Cooperative Economics
  • Pro-Black Solidarity
  • Authentic Relationships (in more than one language)
Jamila Craig | Founder of Jamii Linguists

Our Impact

Our work is intentionally focused to create an impact in the following areas:

Transnational Black Solidarity

Multilingual Movement Building

Multilingual Education

Solidarity Economies & Cooperative Economics

Read Our 2020 - 2021 Impact Report

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