Our Team
Associate Director for Conservation Technical Assistance
jasmine@pasafarming.org
814.349.9856 x777
Jasmine supports farmers and Technical Assistance Providers as they implement conservation practices to boost farm vitality and resource conservation from Maine to South Carolina.
Jasmine uses her power of storytelling, core memories, and asset-based community development to revitalize the connection between neighbors and the regional food system. Before joining Pasa, Jasmine operated Philly Forests, an 8-acre farm using crop revenue to fund an urban ecology program that promoted environmental justice and urban forestry in Philadelphia. Jasmine also has a background in federal food policy work and Native American food sovereignty advocacy in Northern California. She has served as an advisor for the USDA Farm Service Agency Urban Agriculture County Committee for Philadelphia, a Land Advocacy Fellow for the National Young Farmers Coalition, and a Board member for the Pennsylvania Farmers Union. Currently, she operates an agroforestry demonstration farm in Western Pennsylvania dedicated to making conservation accessible through apprenticeships and environmental storytelling. She joins Pasa with aligned values in resource distribution to programs that usually have a lot of red tape.
Outside of Pasa, Jasmine is a classical pianist working through Chopin’s 21 nocturnes. She also enjoys foraging mushrooms and herbaceous plants in the wild.
