Jasmine Parker

Jasmine Parker (she/her/hers), director for diversity and inclusion, collaborates across the Berklee network to strategize on and implement initiatives reflected in Berklee’s diversity and inclusion framework. She also creates and conducts diversity and inclusion professional development, faculty and staff consultations, student-facing trainings and engagement efforts, institutional programming, social media management, and assessment, evaluation, and reporting. 

Prior to joining Berklee, Parker designed and implemented a groundbreaking diversity, equity, and inclusion professional development series at Texas Tech University entitled Race, Racism, and Public Spaces. She received the 2019 President's Excellence Award in Diversity and Equity, and served on the College of Education’s faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She was also an affiliate faculty member for the Honors College, where she designed and taught a course called The Civil Rights Movement and Making Modern America. She also taught the History and Foundations of American Education course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. An ardent believer in lifelong learning, she encourages everyone to lean in to discomfort to become their best selves.

Parker earned a doctorate in education policy, organization, and leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master’s degree in educational policy also from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a bachelor’s degree in history with a minor in sociology from Prairie View A&M University. She also completed legal training as a law student and Decoudreaux Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington's Maurer School of Law.