Jasmine’s research focuses on the infrastructures of and for imagination – the material, digital, and civic systems that shape how social and environmental futures are envisioned and made possible. Through analysis of the built environment, with a particular focus on data centers, energy systems, and carceral infrastructure, she examines how large-scale systems enable and constrain the capacity to imagine and enact alternative futures, and how power and belonging are unevenly distributed across them.
Her dissertation brings this critical perspective into conversation with creative, community-based civic practices, exploring how civic infrastructures and participatory processes shape who gets to imagine the future and on what terms.
Jasmine is also a co-creator and research lead of The Future of Us, a civic imagination initiative that brings people together through storytelling, design, and participatory world-building. By surfacing community visions of the future, Future of Us reimagines civic culture, making civic life more creative, joyful, and accessible.
Publications / Blog Posts:
Public Utility Commission Stakeholder Engagement: A Decision-Making Framework
The Role of State Utility Regulators in a Just and Reasonable Energy Transition
State Energy Justice Roundtable Series: Energy Justice Metrics
A Robust Definition of Environmental Justice Communities Must Be Intersectional
Awards:
Health Policy Research Scholar
U.C. Berkeley Global Democracy Commons Fellowship
Research Groups:
RAEL (Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab – Kammen)
Liberatory Infrastructures Lab (Maya Carrasquillo)
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