Jabari Simama

Who is Jabari Simama?

Jabari Simama is an educator, public official, and author. He is currently the president of Georgia Piedmont Technical College located in metropolitan Atlanta. The college has campuses/centers in DeKalb County, Newton, Rockdale, and Morgan counties in Georgia. He is formerly Chief of Staff for CEO Burrell Ellis, where he served from 2009-2012. In 2001 he was the chief architect of a large municipal technology program to bridge the digital divide, The Atlanta Community Technology Initiative where thousands of citizens were taught how to use computers and the internet. Simama also organized broadband in cities' and towns' summits from 2006-2009 in Columbia, South Carolina which explored how broadband technology can serve un-served rural and urban communities. Featured in John Barber's book The Black Digital Elite: African American Leaders of the Information Revolution, published by Praeger Publishers, Simama is also the author of Civil Rights to Cyber Rights: Broadband & Digital Equality in the Age of Obama, published in July, 2009.