Jamila Payne

Jamila Payne, president of Milla by Mail, has had a passion for fashion and entrepreneurship since she was a little girl. She honed her entrepreneurial skills with the National Foundation for Entrepreneurship, and went on to work for fashion houses such as FUBU, Anthropologie, and Mimi Maternity. She has been featured in InStyle Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Black Enterprise, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as many other local and national publications. As the consulting director of business services for the Queens Economic Development Corporation in New York, she develops programs that assist nearly 2,000 entrepreneurs a year. She has a degree in design and merchandising from Drexel University and an MBA from the Lebow College of Business, and serves on the board of the Sustainable Business Network of Philadelphia.