Jamila is the founder of Women Empowered to Act for Dialogue and Peace in Mindanao, a Marawi-based small organization that started its work after the crisis. Jamila has extensive peacebuilding work in Mindanao for over twenty years. She teaches, designs, implements, and facilitates training workshops on various topics in peace and conflict studies, gender mainstreaming, religious peacebuilding, Philippine and Mindanao history. She is a member of Silsilah Dialogue Movement and Area Coordinator of Silsilah Forum Lanao. She has actively promoted Silsilah‘s Culture of Dialogue as a Path to Peace for thirteen years now. Jamila is a Salzburg Global Fellow and holds M.A. in Gender and Peacebuilding from the United Nations-Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. Jamila explained about the 4 pillars of dialogue. They are Dialogue with God, Dialogue with the self, Dialogue with others, Dialogue with creator. When she shared about the challenges she faced during her journey. She reflected that ―There were times when we are suppressed but as long as you will express what you believe in the most compassionate and in the most in a respectable way then people would accept you and your ideas.‖ She also shared about how she started her organization and empower women in her communities. She is working tirelessly for building peace among communities.