Jasmine Wali
Advocacy Officer
Jasmine Wali is a policy advocate, writer, and organizer committed to divesting from large-scale systems of harm and investing directly in families and communities. She has been a policy consultant for national drug policy, children’s rights, anti-gender-based violence, movement-building organizations, and New York City healthcare institutions, to shift narrative and policies to divert families away from the child welfare system. Previously, she worked on initiatives in three states to limit the scope of child welfare mandated reporting and co-led writing and implementing a “Mandated Supporting” curriculum for social work students
Jasmine comes from a grassroots organizing background, and has co-led or been involved in a number of legislative campaigns aimed at family justice and wellbeing, divesting from harmful systems since 2020. She has written about the child welfare system for The Boston Globe, The Nation, Times Union, CUNY Law Review, Columbia Social Work Review, and CUNY Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education Journal.
Jasmine received her Masters in Social Work from Columbia University, where she was awarded the Fisher Cummings Fellowship to research policies impacting unaccompanied youth at the Southern border and buyers of commercially sexually exploited children at the federal Office of Trafficking in Persons.
