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Jazmin Chavez

Trustee

Jazmin Chavez is the Vice President of Movement Building & Infrastructure at Hispanics in Philanthropy. In her role, she manages a high-impact portfolio and multinational teams comprised of Communications, Digital Innovation in philanthropy and leads, Racial Equity, Leadership, and Organizational Culture & Belonging and leads multimillion-dollar fundraising for both organizational infrastructure and equitable grantmaking strategies for scalable impact in Latinx communities. 

A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and International Coaching Federation certified executive coach, Jazmin has led and designed integrated digital marketing strategies and has provided executive positioning counsel to clients, including Fortune 100 companies. Her ventures include a Divina Latina clothing line, Tonalli, a socially conscious brick-and-mortar Latine boutique, a co-founder of the creative firm Rapport Studios, and her healing-centered coaching firm, Alma Mia. 

She brings over 20 years of experience in digital strategy, fundraising, communications, and innovation for nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, and government agencies. She has 25+ years of experience in community organizing, advocacy, and strategic outreach in underrepresented communities. Jazmin has used communications and legal theory to examine new tactics for digital mobilization and movement building, using social media platforms and narrative power analysis to engage Latinx communities. 

In her previous roles, Jazmin worked in award-winning digital public relations firms Bully Pulpit and Kivvit in New York City.  At both agencies, she built digital programs, devised cultural strategies, advised through crises and transitions, counseled executives on their digital strategy and communications, and developed content and campaigns that are authentic, human-centered, culturally relevant, and responsive to deliver on clients’ strategic goals. Before Kivvit and Bully Pulpit, Chávez served as Digital Director for the Center for Popular Democracy and the Deputy Director of Public Technology and Digital Strategy for former Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and the New York City Council. Chávez is a graduate of CU Boulder and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She lives in her hometown of Denver with her husband and two children and is an Adjunct Professor of Chicanx Studies professor at Metro State University of Denver.