Coordinator

Jamileh is a Deakin University alumni with a Bachelor of Arts in Professional and Creative Writing. Jamileh is a Melbourne based writer with extensive experience in Australian coffee culture and building successful hospitality businesses through high standards, customer relationships and community social hubs. Her current work is to empower young people to learn barista skills at a social enterprise cafe in Rosanna as a community-driven initiative developed by Banyule City Council and Youth Projects.

Jamileh is set to complete a Diploma in Community Services with a focus on empowering young people and social policy programs. Alongside this Jamileh has been accepted into a Masters of Strategic Communication Management at Monash University. She is a communications advisor and researcher for Empowered Women in Trades, a NFP aimed at seeing more girls learn industry trades for career success.

Jamileh's passion for community development and writing has driven her to be a part of international and local event productions as a team leader at Burning Man, Woodford Folk Festival, Meredith Music Festival and Golden Plains. During her undergrad Jamileh lived between Melbourne and Vancouver where she was a volunteer in the non-for-profit sector to empower women and marginalised children in Rwanda and to provide basic necessities to the Vancouver DownTown EastSide residents impacted by homelessness with the NFP Project Blue Hands.