JASMINE COOPER

Detroit City Director
PeacePlayers International

Jasmine Cooper is a relentless entrepreneur, passionate mentor, dedicated youth coach and selfless community advocate who believes “it is easier to build strong children than repair broken men” (Frederick Douglass). Jasmine was born and raised in Detroit, MI and graduated from academic standout, Renaissance High School. After high school, Jasmine attended Howard University where she earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting and MBA in finance.

After spending many years working within her studies as an actuarial analyst, Jasmine made the life-changing decision to step away from the financial industry to walk in her purpose of serving youth and in August 2018, she joined PeacePlayers International as the Detroit Program Manager.

PeacePlayers is an international peace-building non-profit that uses sport to unite, educate and inspire young people in divided communities in conflict (programming in South Africa, Israel, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, and 5 cities in the United States). Based on the premise that if young people can learn to play together, they can live together, PeacePlayers developed a global curriculum that focuses on leadership development, conflict resolution, and seeing people as people.

In January 2021, Jasmine was promoted to City Director for PeacePlayers Detroit and she is now tasked with building and maintaining local program partnerships, meeting the annual fundraising goal, managing local programming, managing and training staff and a host of other operational management tasks.