Jasmine M. Ellis is an associate producer at Slate Podcasts. In this role, she has worked on several shows including serving as an archival researcher for 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, where she produced the Access Atlanta: Things to do in Atlanta podcast. In 2018, Jasmine hosted a dispatch from Stacey Abrams' election night watch party for the Politically Georgia podcast. In 2021, she was included in IWMF’s Women to Watch Round-Up. Jasmine’s an alumna of Spelman College and Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, a 2020 IWMF Gwen Ifill Fellow, a 2019 AIR New Voices Scholar, and a 2016 White House Correspondents' Association scholarship recipient. In 2015, she was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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