Yasmine-Imani McMorrin is a Culver City Council Member, attorney, education equity advocate, and mom. She has extensive experience working in higher education, local/ state policy, and diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) programming/ facilitation. She currently serves as the Director of Education Equity for the Children’s Defense Fund- California.
Yasmine-Imani has worked for The City University of New York, Essex County Community College, and most recently at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law as the Interim Dean of Students and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. While at USC, Yasmine-Imani developed the programming for the student body toward the furtherance of DEI and overall student wellness. She founded Gould Community Conversations in 2018, a DEI initiative created intentionally to allow students, staff, and faculty the opportunity to discuss sensitive topics in a space designed to cultivate compassion and understanding.
Yasmine-Imani has successfully organized for the recruitment, retention, and professional development of Black Educators in LAUSD with the Black Student Excellence Through Educator Diversity, Preparation, and Retention Resolution, unanimously passed in February 2022. She has also organized parents with the Culver City Community of Color Collective, Culver City Unified School District Equity Advisory Committee, and LA Parents Empowered Conference.
In November 2020, Yasmine-Imani was elected as a Council Member in Culver City. She is the first Black woman to serve in this capacity. She sits on various Ad Hoc committees of the City Council including Education, Housing and Homelessness, Public Safety, and Sustainability, among others. She previously served as the Vice-Chair of the Culver City General Plan Advisory Committee (GPAC).
Yasmine-Imani is a graduate of the Los Angeles African American Public Policy Institute (LAAAWPPI) C' 2017 and New Leaders Council- Los Angeles Chapter Institute C’2018. She was also a American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Scholar 2018-2019.
Yasmine-Imani previously worked as an Associate at a law firm in Northern New Jersey, served as a Law Clerk in the New Jersey Superior Court- Criminal Division, and developed employment law experience as an Assistant Mediator with the EEOC- Newark Office.
As a Rutgers School of Law student, she worked with the Community & Transactional Lawyering Clinic and Education & Health Law Clinic. She also served as the President of the Association of Black Law Students.
Yasmine was an inaugural member of the IDEX Fellowship where she served as an Education Consultant at an Affordable Private School in Hyderabad, India. She is an alumna of Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
When she’s not at work or her daughter’s soccer games, Yasmine is practicing yoga, reading books from the library, and watching episodes of Grey’s Anatomy or Schitt’s Creek.