Originally from Boise, Idaho, Jimil moved east to attend Lehigh Univerisity where she studied cultural anthropology and history. After graduating with her B.A. in 2014, Jimil worked in Student Life at a community college in Bethlehem, PA and as Volunteer Coordinator for a local non-profit. In 2016, she moved to Philadelphia to pursue graduate school at Penn GSE in the Education, Culture & Society program. As a part-time graduate student, Jimil also worked as an Interviewer for InitialView. She interviewed hundreds of international students for their applications to boarding schools, undergraduate and graduate programs at U.S. based educational institutions. Currently, Jimil is a PhD student and Research Assistant at Penn GSE. She works with Dr. Krystal Strong on her Mapping School Based Protest project.

My current research interests consider the theoretical and material intersections and experiences of youth, resistance, and new media practices. My work seeks to critically examine the ways youth, new media, and resistance are joined in social practice: namely, how new media cultivates new spaces for resistance; how youth are central actors in new forms of media representation and resistance; and how resistance practices are central to the ways in which youth are represented and the extent to which their personhood and ways of being are socially legitimized. My current research projects hope to ethnographically engage with the ways micro-political resistance practices that utilize new media platforms intersect with neoliberal capitalism and anthropology's theoretical notions of affect and assemblage.