Sis. Yasmine Arrington’s

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Sis. Yasmine Arrington's

Yasmine “YazzieSpeaks” Arrington was born and raised in Washington, DC and attended DC Public Schools. Yasmine attended Benjamin Banneker Academic High School. She is a 2015 graduate from Elon University with a Bachelor of Arts in Strategic Communications and History. Yasmine earned her Master of Divinity degree from the Howard University School of Divinity in May 2018. Yasmine is the author of Daily Reflections for Social Entrepreneurs Journal.

Yasmine is a member of Brown Memorial AME Church, in Northeast Washington, DC, under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Marlene Mitchell. At Brown Memorial AME Church, Yasmine participates in Youth Ministry and YPD initiatives, the Social Justice and Political Action ministry, lay ministry activities, and serves as the liaison between the church and Eastern Senior High School. Yasmine is a licentiate within the AME Church with her local license to preach God’s Word, working towards itinerant orders for traveling ministry.

In 2010, while a junior in high school, Yasmine founded the non-profit ScholarCHIPS (www.scholarchipsfund.org), an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents, inspiring them to complete their college education. To date, ScholarCHIPS has awarded over $300,000 in college scholarships to 76 scholars, with 30 graduates to date. Yasmine is also the Founder of IncarciCare, LLC, an online platform that allows people to purchase care packages for incarcerated loved ones, returning citizens and those on home confinement.

Yasmine is a renowned motivational speaker. She has been featured in TeenVogue, Essence, Black Enterprise, Forbes Magazine, The Washington Post, and the Baltimore Times, and on ABC7 News WJLA and NBC4 for her community work with ScholarCHIPS. Yasmine is a recipient of several awards including the Washington Business Journal Top 40 Under 40, the Linowes Leadership Award from the Greater Washington Community Foundation, the Peace First Prize, the DC Social Innovation Prize, Angel Among Us Award by the Negro Council of Women, the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award, the Samuel Halperin Public Service Award, Radio One WKYS Top 30 Under 30, and others.

Yasmine loves interacting with ScholarCHIPS’ scholars, alumni and their families and serving as a near-peer mentor to the organization’s scholars and as an advocate for children of incarcerated parents, incarcerated individuals, and returning citizens. She looks forward to continuing to work in partnership with ScholarCHIPS’ board of directors and staff to expand the capacity and sustainability of ScholarCHIPS to ensure that children with incarcerated parents have the holistic support they need to graduate from college and be successful in life for generations to come. In doing this work, scholar-by-scholar, ScholarCHIPS is breaking down taboo, stigma and the burden of shame and societal systemic barriers that disadvantaged youth often face in pursuing higher education, ultimately, breaking cycles of poverty and incarceration.

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