Imam Earl S. El-Amin was raised and educated in the Baltimore Metropolitan area and is a graduate of Morgan State University and Sojouner Douglass College. For well over 30 years he has served in various capacities of leadership in the Muslim community as well as the community at large. He has conducted numerous workshops, forums and trainings throughout the United States and abroad to educators, theologians, social workers and human service practitioners.

Imam El-Amin was a member of several distinguished delegations accompanying Imam Wallace D. Mohammed abroad, representing Muslim American interests; he was participant in the first historic dialogue between Imams and Rabbis in North America, and also was present at President Barack Obama's presentation to Muslim leadership in Baltimore.