Dr. Jamillah Karim is an author and former academic whose research focuses on ummah (ideals of a community in the Muslim world) versus the race and class hierarchy found in the United States. She was raised in a community with roots in the Nation of Islam, which initially sparked her interest in looking at the intersection of identities for Black, Muslim Women in the United States. She started her career studying electrical engineering but went on to gain a PhD in Islamic Studies from Duke University. Her research focused on Islamic Feminism and Transnational Identity for Muslims in the United States. This research led to two of her first published books, Women of the Nation: Between Black Protest and Sunni Islam and American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class and Gender Within the Ummah. Dr. Karim also writes a blog called Race, Gender, and Faith, where she writes about her experience as a Muslim Woman in the United States and where she wrote about her experience abroad, living with her family in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia for one year. Her work and research has been published in the Huffington Post and the NYU Press Blog. After retiring from her position as an associated professor of Religious Studies at Spelman College, she has focused on homeschooling her three sons, continuing her research and writing a new book, Radical Love, which will focus on the depth and beauty of divine and human love.