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Jamiah Adams

Diversity and Justice Senior Vice President

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Jamiah Adams (she/her/hers) is the Diversity and Justice Senior Vice president at The Climate Reality Project. She previously served as the chief of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Tom Steyer PAC. Before her DEI work, Jamiah held digital, communications, and campaign leadership roles at MoveOn.org, NextGen America, the Democratic National Committee, and the NAACP. She is most proud of developing an equitable hiring policy and practice that implemented the most diverse presidential staff in United States history and her work when she led the communications strategy for a 1,000-mile march for justice. Jamiah conceptualized a civil rights coalition website commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Her civil society work spans environmental justice, criminal justice, immigrant rights, and racial justice campaigns, including serving as an inaugural fellow at the Center for American Progress Leadership Institute. She served abroad as a cultural ambassador for the U. S. State Department in Eastern Europe. Through Believers Consulting, Jamiah provides select clients with DEI strategy and political advice. Her diversity, equity, and inclusion practice are grounded in communications and the values that have guided her work within the advocacy space—engendering equitable access for those who have been traditionally marginalized. A graduate of the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University, she resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jamiah volunteers both nationally and locally and is civic-minded and values-centered. Nationally, she has served on the Wildland Fire Mitigation Federal Commission and is an inaugural World Forestry Fellow. She is a board member for the Rumi Forum, serves on the Solano County Land Trust, the External Advisory Committee for the Graduate Program of Environmental Policy and Management at the University of California, Davis, and the Federal Commission for the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site in Washington, D.C. Jamiah enjoys spending time with her extended family, including over 35 cousins as well walking in nature, including participating in all manner of water activities. Additionally, she is a certified Double Dutch Aerobics instructor - who can teach anyone how to jump double Dutch in less than a minute.
Jamiah Adams