Interview: Jamad Fiin, Basketball Player, on Empowering Muslim Girls to Hoop

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Eid Mubarak! In this episode, Shireen Ahmed talks with Jamad Fiin, basketball player and social media sensation, currently playing her last season with Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts while getting her Master's Degree in Business Administration. They discuss Jamad's influential and viral social media videos and the importance of visibility of Muslim dress in sport. They also talk about how she fell in love with basketball, her fashion ambassadorship with StockX and her organization Jamad Basketball Camps that puts on basketball workshops for girls throughout the United States. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Flamethrower, Shireen here, Eid Mabarak while the month of Ramadan is over, and I'm so excited to have an amazing guest with us today. Jamad Finn.
0:21.8	Jamad.
0:22.4	Marjava.
0:23.8	Marhaba, how are you guys?
0:26.0	Good.
0:27.2	For those of you that don't know, Jamad Finn is a former college basketball player at
0:32.2	Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts.
0:35.0	She's now pursuing a master's in business admin, a proud Muslim and
0:39.0	first generation American with her parents from Somalia. Jamad is just getting started and using
0:44.4	her social media platforms. She selflessly organizes tournaments to encourage young girls to continue
0:50.9	the sports they love no matter what the circumstances that stand in their way.
0:56.1	She's the founder of Jamad Basketball Camps, a non-profit organization helping to empower all girls through basketball
1:03.0	and teaching them how to be better people on and off the court.
1:08.0	You will know her and you have seen her breaking ankles in an abaya all over,
1:13.1	Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, everywhere. Jamad, we're so happy to have you and burn it all down.
1:18.5	Thank you so much, Shereen. I'm excited to be on.
1:20.9	So I want you to tell me, first of all, the moment you fell in love with basketball,
1:27.1	I know your brother brothers played, I know
1:28.4	you were on the courts all the time, and you were very often the only girl there.
1:32.9	But what was the moment you fell in love with basketball?
1:36.3	I think it was definitely when I was in ninth grade.
1:40.3	I didn't, like, I played basketball to play basketball for fun, but when I found love was
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