El Jones is a spoken word activist and teacher. She was the 5th Poet Laureate of Halifax from 2013-2015. El captained the Hali Slam team to back-to-back National Championships in 2007 and 2008. She is a co-founder of Centerline Studios, a community development centre providing arts programming and community organizing space. She is a host of Youth Now! radio on CKDU, which programs straight into Burnside jail, where inmates can share poetry, rap, music, and their stories. She also writes the Saturday Morning File for the Halifax Examiner, where she brings a Black perspective to the news. She is currently a writer in residence at the University of Iowa.