Yasmin has collaborated with SocialSphere since 2010 and her time at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she recently received a Masters in Public Policy with a concentration in Democracy, Politics, and Institutions.
While at the Kennedy School she co-founded the Government 2.0 Professional Interest Council, which works to encourage the integration of Government 2.0 principles into the curricula and events at the Kennedy School and wrote her masters thesis on how U.S. Federal Agencies can Use Social Media to Increase Civic Participation. She has served on the Student Digital Advisory Board for the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy, the Program Committee for O’Reilly’s Gov 2.0 Expo, and along with her colleagues at Mass.gov, MIT, and O’Reilly, she co-hosted the first annual New England Government 2.0 Camp in 2010.
Prior to graduate school, Yasmin was the Information Officer for the Office of the Arts and Special Projects at the NYC Department of Education and received a B.A. in Government from Cornell University. |
