Jahmal Williams

Jahmal Williams is a regular-footed professional skateboarder, skate company owner and artist from Boston, Massachusetts. He was raised by his mother with four other siblings and in the early to mid 1980s was into breakdancing and graffiti writing, then freestyle BMX, before buying a skateboard in the summer of 1988; his mother bought him a Thrasher issue with Tony Alva on the cover. In 1998 he received a scholarship to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where he studied drawing, sculpture and painting for four years. His first sponsor was Beacon Hill Skateshop, he went pro for T.V. skateboards after touring with its team, and after T.V. folded he joined Ed Templeton's new company, Toy Machine.