Jamila is a Texan, anti-imperialist, Immigration organizer, PIC abolition organizer, border abolitionist, labor organizer, educator, writer, and PhD Student at the CUNY Graduate Center studying Community Organizing & Social Movements with a focus in migration and no borders. Jamila is a Frederick Douglass 200 Bicentennial Abolitionist Honoree, on the Open Borders Conference Steering Committee, on the board of Free Migration Project, and will bring their years-long engagement organizing in and with migrant and border communities to bear in their perspective on abolition of detention, deportation and open borders.