Jazmin Chavez is the Vice President of Innovation, Equity, and Communications at Hispanics in Philanthropy. A serial entrepreneur, angel investor and 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 practice, 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, Jazmín worked in award-winning digital public relations firms Bully Pulpit and Kivvit in New York City. At both agencies, she delivered on clients' strategic goals through building digital programs, devising cultural strategies, advising through crises and transitions, counseling executives on their digital strategy and communications and developing content and campaigns that were authentic, human-centered, culturally relevant and responsive. 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 Chicanx Studies professor at Metro State University of Denver.