Close up with Joe Livecchi: Freeform’s Jamila Hunter Jamila Hunter is the accidental television executive. She’s grateful for her station in life, but as a child who grew up on a steady diet of Toni Morrison, theatre, and ... May 12, 2021 Jamila Hunter is the accidental television executive. She’s grateful for her station in life, but as a child who grew up on a steady diet of Toni Morrison, theatre, and philosophy, there is a Sliding Doors aspect to her life that has her working within an education she has yet to graduate from. “What my parents taught me, it was not about chasing external validation or success,” she says. “I blame them for instilling in me a strong moral compass, I probably would have been more successful without it. I don’t do well with stuff I don’t believe in.”