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.