Jasmin Sandelson

At Columbia University’s Justice Lab, Jasmin is Research Manager for The Square One Project, a national narrative change initiative focused on criminal justice reform.

With David Harding and Bruce Western, Jasmin 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. She also edited chapters in Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice (2023: New Press).

Jasmin has a PhD in sociology from Harvard University, where she was a Presidential Scholar. Her work was also 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).