At Columbia University’s Justice Lab, Jasmin is Research Manager for The Square One Project, a national narrative- and culture-change initiative focused on criminal justice reform. Recently, she co-edited a volume of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science about probation and parole, and co-authored the issue’s introduction with David Harding and Bruce Western. She also edited chapters featured in Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice (2023: New Press) eds. Bruce Western and Jeremy Travis.
Jasmin has a PhD in sociology from Harvard University, where she was a Presidential Scholar and funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Education, Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies.
Along with her book, My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood, she studied rent-stabilized tenants in New York City facing landlord harassment, and contributed field research to the New York Times bestseller, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (2016: Simon & Schuster).
Previous Degrees:
B.A. (Hons), Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, University of Cambridge (First Class with Distinction) (2011)
A.M., Sociology, Harvard University (2015)