Jasmine is most interested in weaving stories of the past and present to showcase the long lineages of Black resistance and survival, particularly in the U.S. South. Through editing others and writing their own essays, poetry, and fiction, Jasmine invites history to be in conversation with the present in the hopes of dreaming up new possibilities.

Jasmine is an Editor of Freedom Meridian, a digital vertical of Apogee Journal where they correspond with and publish incarcerated writers. They copyedit oral histories of formerly incarcerated organizers for Movements Against Mass Incarceration (MAMI) and essays + articles for Logic(s), Outside of writing, Jasmine is a dog parent of Birdie Valentina, abortion doula and community herbalist in training, avid book collector, and sometimes reader. They are an amateur home cook, student of abolition and the Black radical anti-imperialist tradition, and lifelong learner. Jasmine has bylines in Prism [see also], HoodCommunist, PS [see also] and TransLash. Their fiction can be found at Torch Literary, Ebony Tomatoes Collective, and Sistories.

Jasmine graduated with a B.A. in Geography from Dartmouth College in 2021 and currently works as an organizing coach with CODEPINK, a feminist anti-war nonprofit. In this role, Jasmine helps local organizers disrupt the war economy and make peace more visible. They create transformative political education programming to meet the educational needs of the movement, and to ensure the left’s strategies and analysis meet the current political moment.