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 essays, poetry, fiction, and other multi-disciplinary formats, Jasmine invites history to be in conversation with the present in the hopes of dreaming up new possibilities.

Jasmine is an Outreach Editor at Apogee/Perigee Journal where they correspond with and publish incarcerated writers. Outside of writing, Jasmine is a community herbalist, dog parent of Birdie Valentina, abortion doula, avid book collector, and sometimes reader. They are an amateur home cook, student of abolition, and lifelong learner.

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.