About Jamila

Jamila White is an experienced Internet strategist who possesses a unique blend of web site development, business strategy, marketing communications and training expertise. Her firm, Jamila White and Associates, Inc., has clients that span the private, public and non-profit sectors, and include PBS, Georgetown University, the Points of Light Foundation, the Women's Business Center and Maryland Public Television. Jamila has produced several award-winning web sites, including Maryland Public Television's Sense and Dollars — a personal finance site for kids — and the Wonders of Africa with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. web site and cutting-edge digitally-enhanced broadcast, both companion pieces to the internationally acclaimed six-part documentary. Among her accolades for her web productions are a PBS "Eddie" Award, Yahoo! "Pick of the Day," Project Cool's "Site of the Year," and recognition by The New York Times for excellence in education.

Jamila is a regular instructor of E-Commerce and Internet Marketing at Georgetown University's Networked Media Center and the Women's Business Center, both in Washington, D.C. A summa cum laude graduate of Howard University, from 1997-1999 Jamila owned and operated Brothers & Sisters, an award-winning web-based retail mail order business.

Jamila has worked at COMSAT Corporation, a telecommunications and satellite communications provider; and Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., an international public relations agency, in a variety of marketing and public relations positions. While at COMSAT, Jamila served as project manager and principal architect of the corporation's 100-page web site, leading a team of writers, graphic designers and programmers to launch the site in 1995.