Jasmine Rashid has always believed in people power. She is a writer, impact investing professional, and author of The Financial Activist Playbook: 8 Strategies for Everyday People to Reclaim Wealth & Collective Well-Being. Growing up in Long Island, New York as the only child of a Bangladeshi immigrant father working in finance and a Czech Italian American mother working in eldercare, Jasmine was intimately attuned to manmade inequalities under capitalism. She organized the largest known protest for racial justice in her hometown’s history and worked with grassroots partners on #FamiliesBelongTogether, a campaign that put public pressure on big banks financing private prison facilities where migrants were held under inhumane conditions. The campaign helped cut $2 billion in financial ties to the industry. Now living in Oakland, California and serving as Director of Impact for Candide Group, Jasmine helps investors flow their money to women- and BIPOC-led social justice-focused organizations building the next economy. She is a Congressman John Lewis fellow, Just Economy Institute alum, Trauma of Money Method certified practitioner, and a nationally recognized speaker and financial activist. Her work has been featured in Forbes, KQED, San Francisco Chronicle, Inc. and other national media outlets.
