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SharifaSmith.com serves as her primary portfolio for her acting and singing career.

: Utilizing highly visual networks to showcase snippets of daily discipline, solo travel reflections, and spontaneous moments of vocal or poetic expression. sharifa jamila smith

Perhaps Smith’s most celebrated project is , a transitional home for women exiting incarceration. Founded in 2014 in a converted brownstone in Detroit, The Rose House is not simply a shelter but a full-spectrum reentry program. Residents receive job training, mental health counseling, and, uniquely, classes on Islamic finance and cooperative business models. SharifaSmith

Sharifa Jamila Smith’s journey into activism was not linear. In her early twenties, she worked as a public school teacher in a low-income district on Chicago’s South Side. It was there that she witnessed the "school-to-prison pipeline" firsthand—a reality that would shape her life’s trajectory. Disillusioned by a system that punished rather than nurtured, she turned to faith. Founded in 2014 in a converted brownstone in

: Portrayed the character Linda Kooij in this contemporary production.