Jasmine M. Ellis
audio Journalist, archival researcher and public historian
Jasmine M. Ellis interviews Democratic National Committee Interim Chair Donna Brazile during the 2016 Democratic National Convention. (Jasmine M. Ellis/MEDILL)
Jasmine M. Ellis interviews Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson about gun control during the Capitol Hill sit-in. (Jasmine M. Ellis/MEDILL)
Jasmine M. Ellis meets President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
Jasmine M. Ellis is an award-winning audio journalist, archival researcher, and public historian. Most recently, she graduated with her second master’s in history, concentrating on public history and African American women’s history from Howard University. Jasmine’s intellectual interests include Black women’s experiences and contributions during the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement. She is also interested in Black women’s use of media as a form of resistance and activism.
Prior to attending Howard, Jasmine was an associate producer at Slate Podcasts. In this role, she worked on several shows, including as an archival researcher for the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn: The L.A. Riots. Jasmine has a background in public radio, having reported and produced stories for Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson and WHYY in Philadelphia. She also worked as the podcast specialist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While at the publication, she produced the Access Atlanta: Things to do in Atlanta podcast and hosted a dispatch from Stacey Abrams’ election night watch party for the Politically Georgia podcast.
Jasmine’s an alumna of Spelman College and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, a 2022 IWMF Lauren Brown Fellow, a 2021 IWMF Women to Watch Round-Up selectee, a 2020 IWMF Gwen Ifill Fellow, a 2019 AIR New Voices Scholar, and a 2016 White House Correspondents' Association scholarship recipient. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Women Historians, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, and the Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Alpha Theta, and Pi Sigma Alpha honor societies.