Jasmine Haywood

Strategy Director for Student Success
Lumina Foundation 

Jasmine Haywood, Ph.D., is a strategy director at Lumina Foundation. In that role, she leads a portfolio of work that focuses on increasing student success outcomes at four-year institutions. Before joining Lumina, Haywood was a visiting faculty member in the Department of Educational Leadership at Indiana State University. Prior to joining ISU, she was the managing editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, a research assistant at IUPUI’s Center for Urban and Multicultural Education, and an admissions counselor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in upstate New York.

Haywood has published peer-reviewed scholarship on the lived experiences of Afro-Latinx students in higher education, microaggressions, and faculty of color. She was named a 2016 Ebony Magazine Power 100 honoree and awarded the IU Neal-Marshall Alumni Club Standard Bearer Award. She has been quoted in the Washington Post, NBC Latino, and Univision. Dr. Haywood holds master’s and doctoral degrees in higher education and student affairs from Indiana University.