Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Tamila was exposed early on to the realities of anti-Black racism in America which informed her identity as a Black, queer, woman from a low-income background and sparked her passion which is to secure the liberation of Black people across the diaspora and all intersectional identities, as well as all oppressed peoples. This passion has guided her work across education, legal, and nonprofit contexts.

For the past three years, Tamila has worked internally at Teach For America utilizing her DEI lens to revamp hiring and compensation processes to make them more equitable, design and facilitate supports to integrate DEI efforts and learnings across the organization, and serve as a DEI and culture advisor to senior leaders. As the Senior Managing Director of Black Community Alliances, Tamila is charged with ensuring the concerns and needs of the diverse and intersectional Black community are appropriately addressed and integrated across the entire enterprise. Alongside her work at TFA, Tamila serves as a DEI Consultant and Facilitator to corporations and nonprofits in partnership with Harmonize, Equity Empowered, and through her own consulting firm, 3D Studios.