Jamilah is an emerging Sociologist specializing in critical race studies, critical gender studies, decolonial pedagogy and Black masculinity studies. She is active in community work, educational, and research consultancy to support Black, Indigenous, Queer and other racialized communities. As such, she co-founded the Decolonial Perspectives and Practises Hub at Concordia University and the National Black Graduate Network. She is the project manager for the Anti-racist Pedagogy Project at Concordia, an active member of Concordia's Black Studies Collective, the coordinator of Concordia's Black Caucus and she held the position of student outreach coordinator with the Black Canadian Studies Association for two years.

She is currently completing her doctoral studies at Concordia University. My project, Black Masculinities in Canada: A Documentary of Black Empowerment and Community Engagement, supervised by Dr. Marc Lafrance, is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship.