Jasmine Young is a Staff Attorney at the National Health Law Program in Los Angeles, California. Jasmine engages in a broad range of policy and administrative advocacy on California’s health care programs and policies. Her advocacy work focuses on improving access to Medi-Cal mental health and reproductive services for Black, Indigenous, people of color, youth, and other underserved, low-income, and systematically impacted individuals.
As a civil rights activist, Jasmine has dedicated herself to using her community organizing, legal, and policy advocacy skills to achieve racial and economic justice for Black, Indigenous, and people of color. During law school, Jasmine was a law review associate writer for the California Western International Law Journal and research assistant, where she dove into research and writing about issues concerning reproductive oppression, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income and systematically impacted individuals, police violence, and anti-Black racism. She also worked and volunteered for various social justice and grassroot organizations, where she developed a passion for building and sustaining advocacy coalitions around systematic issues that affect Black, Indigenous, and communities of color.
Jasmine received her B.A. in Political Science and B.S. in Criminal Justice from San Diego State University, and her J.D. from California Western School of Law.
