Jasmin Sowell-Spears

Jasmin Sowell-Spears currently serves as the Division Director of Education and Youth Development, overseeing BCS after school programming services, as well as childcare and learning to work services. She has worked over 10 years in the youth development sector, working as a community school director where she established a school-based food pantry with Island Harvest and a mental health clinic at Adelphi University. The product of a single parent household, Jasmin was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn and is passionate about helping residents realize that “the world is waiting to receive them.” She is a United States Army Reserve Veteran, serving on a tour to Iraq under the Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF). Jasmin’s educational background includes a Bachelors of Public Administration from Medgar Evers College, a Masters of Public Administration from Baruch College, and a Masters of Social Work from Fordham University.