Jamila Craig, Esq.
Founder & Executive Director
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Founder & Executive Director
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Jamila Craig, Esq. is a linguist and social impact entrepreneur specializing in Black-centric language coaching and multilingual community building across the African Diaspora. As the Founder of Jamii Linguists, she leads a transnational network of language workers that spans 4 continents and 10+ countries, centering her value for solidarity economies. She utilizes her varied experience to provide high-level executive consulting for community leaders committed to multilingual community building.
Her experience includes work as a:
- language justice and interpreter coordinator for multilingual conferences & events (virtual, in-person, and hybrid)
- simultaneous interpreter, translator, multililingual consultant & project director, grant writer
- community organizer, political organizer, and labor union organizer
- attorney
- workshop facilitator
- K-12 classroom teacher & adult educator
- and more.
Jamila has been a featured speaker for the Sisters Only Language Summit and Women In Language conference, as well as delivering a TEDx talk entitled "Why we ain't gonna get free in one language."
Her journey as a linguist began with receiving her certification in Simultaneous Interpretation from Howard University, where she trained with United Nations (UN) interpreters and participated in on-site field training at the UN headquarters in New York City. During her time at Howard University, she also obtained a BA in Political Science/Spanish. Jamila complements her advocacy skills with a law degree and graduate certificate in international human rights from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
For more than 20 years, Jamila has worked in service to community development and issue-based advocacy initiatives. Jamila served as a Political Organizer with the Human Rights Campaign, fighting for marriage equality and employment non-discrimination. She is a dedicated immigrant rights advocate who, in 2013, co-authored From Cradle to Career: The Multiple Challenges Facing Immigrant Families in Langley Park Promise Neighborhood. Jamila also served as the Project Director for Learning Together, a community-schools, teacher-parent engagement program funded by a $3M i3 Investing in Innovation grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
Jamila has lived in Germany, Argentina, and South Africa and traveled to more than 20 countries. She speaks Black English, Spanglish, Spanish, Portuguese, French and English at varying levels, and is currently learning Haitian Creole and ASL. She is a proud Black United Statian raised by two US-born parents (one from Brooklyn, NY and the other from New Haven, CT), her extended family composition has grown to include a multicultural mix of Afroestadounidenses, Trinidadians, and Afro-Colombians. She affectionately refers to herself as a child of the diaspora and a citizen of the world.
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