Jamila Hunter

Senior Television Executive, Producer and Team Leader

Jamila Hunter is a senior television executive and producer with more than two decades of experience shaping the business and creative landscape of the entertainment industry. A strategic leader with a sharp eye for talent and storytelling, she has developed and shepherded acclaimed scripted and unscripted series across streaming, broadcast, and cable, aligning vision, talent, and strategy to deliver stories with cultural and commercial impact.

Most recently, she served as President of Television at MACRO, where she oversaw the Apple series Government Cheese starring David Oyelowo and packaged premium projects with top-tier talent including Laurence Fishburne, Taraji P. Henson, Jo Koy, and Larry Wilmore.

Previously, as head of scripted and unscripted programming at Freeform, Jamila led the network to record-breaking success with Cruel Summer, its highest-rated series ever, and Single Drunk Female, its biggest comedy debut in more than four years. Her purview also included The Bold Type, Emmy®-nominated Grown-ish and GLAAD-nominated Good Trouble. Prior to her time at Freeform, she was President of Kenya Barris’s Khalabo Ink Society under an overall deal at Netflix. Hunter collaborated with Barris during her tenure in ABC’s comedy department first as Vice President, then as Senior Vice President overseeing the department and all new network sitcom development. In her time at ABC, Hunter developed the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy®-nominated Black-ish and long-running hits The Conners, Last Man Standing, and Fresh Off the Boat.

Hunter began her career at NBC, rising from the Page Program into key development roles across movies, reality programming (Fear Factor, Last Comic Standing, The Apprentice), live events, and alternative comedy. From NBC, she was instrumental in opening Bravo’s Los Angeles hub after the channel’s re-brand and launch of iconic series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Project Runway. Jamila was also a senior creative executive at the launch of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.

Deeply committed to expanding the industry pipeline, she serves on the Education Committee of the Television Academy Foundation, advises Women in Film’s Fellowship Program and has co-created television development curricula for UC Irvine and Tuskegee University. She recently became a board member of the Entertainment Industry College Outreach Program (EICOP) and UCLA’s Center for Scholars and Storytellers. A graduate of Spelman College, Jamila resides in North Hollywood with her husband and daughter.