Jamillah Karim is an award-winning author, speaker, and blogger. She specializes in race, gender, and Islam in America. 

Jamillah is author of American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender Within the Ummah, which was awarded the 2008 Book Award in Social Sciences by the Association for Asian American Studies, and Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam (with Dawn-Marie Gibson).

Jamillah regularly speaks at college campuses and Muslim conferences across the nation. In 2014, her scholarly activism was recognized by JET magazine, which featured her as a young faith leader in the African American community.

Jamillah is a former associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Spelman College. She holds a BSE in electrical engineering and a PhD in Islamic Studies from Duke University.