El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor and activist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[5][6] Her work focuses on social justice issues such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization;[3] she wrote in The Washington Postin June 2020 about "the realities of white-supremacist oppression that black people in Canada have long experienced.

"[7] Since 2016, she has co-hosted a radio show called Black Power Hour on CKDU-FM, an educational program which provides information on Black history and culture aimed at incarcerated people.

[8] Listeners from prisons call in to rap and read poetry that they have written, providing a voice to people who rarely get a wide audience.

[11] In 2017, she was named the 15th Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University.