Jamillah Moore, Ph. D.

Dr. Jamillah Moore brings 15 years of educational, policy, instruction, and advocacy experience to her role as President of Los Angeles City College. Dr. Moore began her career in advocacy as a California State Senate fellow in public policy for Senator Teresa P. Hughes. In 1996, she was appointed as senior consultant for the California State Senate Select Committee on College and University Admissions and Outreach. She then went to work for the Los Angeles County Office of Education as the Director of Governmental Relations.

In 2004, Dr. Moore joined the System Office of the California Community Colleges as a Senior Vice-Chancellor for Governmental and External Relations. Shortly after taking the post, she was appointed officially to the position by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2005, she led the state recovery team for one year as the Interim President of Compton Community College, working to sustain educational opportunities for the students in that community. While there, she took the lead in advocating and obtaining successful passage of a $30 million recovery loan under Assembly Bill 318 for Compton College.

She began her teaching career at Sierra Community College—and on occasion, she has returned to the classroom as an adjunct professor in the Communication Studies and Multicultural Education Departments at California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Moore used her experience in higher education and public policy to write her first book, Race and College Admissions: A Case for Affirmative Action.

Dr. Moore is a native of Los Angeles County and the daughter of an LACC alumna. She is a graduate of the University of San Francisco, where she earned a doctorate in International and Multicultural Education. She is also a former EOP student and graduate of California State University, Sacramento, where she earned a Masters in Intercultural Communication and Public Policy and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication.