Yasmeen

Biography

Yasmeen is the founder and CEO of Survivors Inspire Solutions (SIS), an organization providing lived experience consulting and healing services to individuals and organizations that support marginalized communities with experiencers of domestic violence, homelessness, substance use disorder, and sex trafficking. Yasmeen brings a unique blend of insight, lived experience, professional expertise, and deep compassion to helping create survivor-centered, trauma-informed systems rooted in healing and empowerment. She is a graduate of Elevate Academy, an alumna of the Empowered Network, and a member of the Sex Trade Survivor Caucus.

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A powerful literary activist and the author of Survivor Soul Speaks, Yasmeen utilizes her poetry as a form of education, liberation, and healing. Her work explores the complexities of trauma, survival in and escape from sex trafficking, recovery and healing. Her work has been published and featured by the University of Washington School of Social Work and Stolen Youth’s 2018 Evening of Hope. She is also a proud graduate of the award-winning writing workshop, The Center for Story and Witness formerly known as The Voices and Faces Project in Chicago. She has performed for many organizations and venues including the Seattle Urban Indian Health Institute, North Seattle Community College, Voices of Community Activist Leaders (VOCAL-WA), Roni Lifeworks Domestic Violence fundraiser, and the Seattle Art Museum. She was the first featured poet at the Seattle Union Gospel Mission Hope Place Women and Children’s Shelter and she’s performed at Sea-Tac Airport for United Through the Arts, a collaboration with United Airlines.

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Yasmeen also serves as the Community Outreach and Engagement Specialist for the development of Washington state's Ebony Alert  initiative aimed at improving responses and visibility for missing and exploited Black women and girls. She also facilitates the African American women’s survivor support group at the Organization for Prostitution Survivors (OPS), providing space for healing, empowerment, and sisterhood.

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As a certified Sacred Sexual Healer, Yasmeen specializes in feminine health holistic healing, and womb wound healing for women including those with experiences of sexual trauma. Through this sacred practice, she helps women reconnect to their bodies, restore their sacred power, and heal their wombs.

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Yasmeen’s work is dedicated to dismantling the systemic silencing of voices that must be heard, nurturing spaces where healing is cultivated with care, empowerment is supported through encouragement and resources, and every experiencer has access to the tools and opportunities to thrive.