Get to know Jass:

Jassmine is a proud Pisces who is learning to swim from her teenage daughter. She shares a birthday with Einstein, Steph Curry and Detroit’s own, Kash Doll. She is a blend of all of their genius: intellect, shooting for excellence and urban girl pride.

Jassmine Parks is also a Detroit educator and slam poetry champion that has performed nationally. Using language as a catalyst to time travel through storytelling, Jassmine believes thoughtful introspection on past experiences in present time allows one to access our agency, creating a future in which we live as our best selves.

Jassmine is the Lead Teaching Artist of InsideOut Literary Arts, the Membership Meeting Facilitator of Room Project, and Co-Producer, Editor and Content Strategist of the podcast, Black Her Stories.

She creates sacred and safe spaces for groups of people that have experienced marginalization including black, femme identifying and queer folks in Detroit. Jassmine's work focuses on the intersection of identity and actively identifying, naming and healing trauma.

She has created an award winning film, directed by NA Forest Lim, and workshop, “blk”, as an act of resistance against black silencing and erasure that has appeared in festivals in the country and abroad.

Jassmine has received multiple fellowships including the 2021 Kresge Arts In Detroit Literary Arts, 2022 Room Project, 2022-2024 InsideOut Literary Arts and 2022 The Watering Hole.  Her work has been published through SlamFind, All Def Poetry, Wusgood? Magazine and Obsidian: Literature & Arts In The African Diaspora.