ABOUT ME

Jemmar Almina is a freelance writer, public speaker, and filmmaker raised between South London, UK, and St Elizabeth, Jamaica.

She is an award-winning community organiser and founder of Collective Punishment UK, a campaign addressing the impact of parental imprisonment on families in the UK. She is also co-founder of the Halo Code campaign and a member of the Parental Imprisonment Collective.

Her writing has been published in gal-dem, Black Ballad, and LAPP The Brand, focusing on colourism, misogynoir, and gender inequality. She has contributed to award-winning documentaries, including the Children’s BAFTA-winning What Do You Mean I Can’t Change The World and We The People, which received the Film Futures Award at the Little Wing Film Festival.

Jemmar is a recipient of The Diana Award (2019) and the Olive Morris Award (2025). She is an alumna of The Advocacy Academy, and a Politics and Sociology graduate from Brunel University London.