Jasmine Barnes (she/her) is a facilitator, community builder, and writer based on Potawatomi land on the South Side of Chicago. For many years, Jasmine served as the Community Engagement Director of an education non-profit, helping adults nationwide develop their relationship-building and collaborative communication skills. She applied similar strategies to the organization’s internal culture, co-leading its inaugural strategic DEI initiatives and developing foundational workplace culture practices.
Jasmine currently works as a consultant providing workplace culture trainings, facilitation and program development services to values-driven organizations. With a degree in sociology and journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, Jasmine brings a human-centered approach to her work, helping organizations and individuals better understand themselves and others. She specializes in creating and facilitating trainings and programs that are grounded in a trauma-informed, healing-centered framework. Her greatest joy is creating supportive and inclusive environments that encourage people to take risks and grow.
Jasmine expands upon this relational work by amplifying and archiving everyday stories through her multidisciplinary writing. She is a freelance journalist and contributing arts and culture writer for South Side Weekly, Sixty Inches From Center, City Bureau, and the Chicago Reader. She’s also published literary writing in publications including Lucky Jefferson. Jasmine has completed multiple writing residencies and fellowships including the City Bureau Civic Reporting Fellowship, the In Surreal Life Fellowship, and the Muña Art Writing Residency.
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