Jasmine Rivera is the Pennsylvania Immigration Coalition’s Executive Director. Jasmine is an impact-driven nonprofit professional with a history of leadership in community organizing, civic engagement, data and analysis, and coalition building.

She joins PIC after serving at Pennsylvania Voice for the last eight years as the Data Manager, then as Civic Engagement Director and finally as Chief of Staff. Beyond her work at Pennsylvania Voice, Jasmine was a co-founder and co-coordinator for the Shut Down Berks Coalition which celebrated the closure of the prison in January, 2023. Jasmine was previously the lead organizer of Juntos and Action United, organizing adults in the Latinx immigrant and Black community in the Philadelphia region.

She has worked on successfully passing local ICE holds policies, commonly known as “sanctuary city” in Philadelphia with the PFUN coalition and in Norristown, successfully running END case campaigns that demanded the release of four community members from immigrant detention, successfully passing the first paid sick leave policy in Philadelphia and fighting against mass school closures in the Philadelphia school district.