Jasmine Mickens is a globally recognized Pan-African impact strategist and Afro-futurist, specializing in reparative development. Her work integrates historical insight, geopolitical analysis, and diaspora strategy to design and activate high-impact philanthropic opportunities across Africa and its global diaspora. She advises institutions and governments seeking to move reparations from moral demand to coordinated economic, political, and people-driven strategy.

With over a decade of leadership at Open Society Foundations—the world’s largest private funder of human rights initiatives—she has operated as a transnational funder and strategic partner, building cross-border alliances and translating ambitious policy visions into durable, on-the-ground infrastructure.

She entered the global reparations movement as a scholar, where she examined the intersection of reparations and racial justice movement-building—producing strategic insights now applied to transnational organizing, advocacy, and reparative development models.