Jamila is Deputy Managing Director of Future Women, where she supports governments and employer organisations working towards gender equality. She is a best-selling author for adults and children, and a columnist for Sunday Life magazine, which is part of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Jamila is also a co-host on The Briefing podcast.

Previously, Jamila advised the Rudd and Gillard Governments on gender, early childhood education, media and employment participation. She has been named in the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence and was a 2020 Women and Leadership Australia award winner.

Jamila is a board member of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, and an ambassador for PLAN International and the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation. She lives and works on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, with her husband Jeremy, 7-year-old son Rafi and very large puppy, Sonny.