Jasmin has a PhD in sociology from Harvard University, where she was supervised by Matthew Desmond 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.
Jasmin’s forthcoming book, My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood, shows how female friendships can mitigate some of poverty’s harms. She also 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.
As a Research Manager at Columbia University’s Justice Lab, Jasmin works on research and policy initiatives connected to criminal justice reform. Recently, she co-edited a volume of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and co-authored the issue’s introduction with David Harding and Bruce Western. The volume, “From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole,” calls for a wholesale reform of current community supervision systems, by replacing their focus on surveillance and control with a focus on support and social integration.
Previous Degrees:
B.A. (Hons), Politics, Psychology, and Sociology, University of Cambridge (First Class with Distinction) (2011)
A.M., Sociology, Harvard University (2015)