Bio
Yazmine Nichols is a Christian Minister and was a Justice Catalyst Fellow at the National ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’s Criminal Law Reform Project where she focuses on challenging unjust pretrial conditions of release through a targeted campaign. Yazmine graduated from the Fordham University School of Law, receiving the Public Interest Valedictorian Award and the Dean’s Special Achievement Award for making a singular and distinctive contribution to the school community. Yazmine recently received the Trailblazer award from the Black Law Student Association in 2021. She is committed to community service and to making the law accessible to those who have been historically disadvantaged by the legal system. Yazmine received her M.A. from Union Theological Seminary in 2017 with an interdisciplinary concentration in Social Ethics and Theology. She also received her B.A. from Williams College with a double major in English and Religion.
Featured work
Sep 29, 2022
For Defense Attorneys: Tips for Effectively Challenging Pretrial Electronic Monitoring
Sep 29, 2022
Three People Share How Ankle Monitoring Devices Fail, Harm, and Stigmatize
Sep 1, 2022
When Release Conditions End in Unjust Confinement
Jun 25, 2021
Jailed For a Faulty Battery and Left to Catch COVID-19