Career
With a focus on hip-hop, politics, race, and sexuality, in 2005, Essence magazine named her one of 25 Women Shaping the World and in 2013 she was named one of the Most Influential n-Americans under 40 in Los Angeles by the Wave newspaper. She is currently a political communications and government affairs consultant with a specialty in crisis communications. She has worked on over 20 local, state, and Federal campaigns for office in the state of California for Democratic candidates.
In Los Angeles, Jasmyne has been at the forefront and a part of many civil rights and racial justice issues involving n-Americans.
She has also appeared on Columbia Broadcasting System This Morning and the Today Show. As a social commentator and opinion writer, Jasmyne has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun Times, Los Angeles Daily News, and Ebony Magazine to name a few and her syndicated column appears in n-American newspapers from coast to coast.
Number stranger to radio, she is the past co-anchor of the evening news on Los Angeles Pacifica radio station 90.7FM KPFK and has served as a segment producer on KJLH-FM’s Front Page show, Southern California’s premiere news and current affairs show focused on the n-American community. She was quoted by the Chicago Sun-Times for her stance on the R. Kelly scandal.
She frequently provides commentary on National Public Radio and is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Progressive, an online social justice magazine.
She is most outspoken about the divide between gays and blacks, and how gay culture is dominated by whites, which is hard to deal with for blacks because they do not feel part of the gay society and are overlooked. She provoked much controversy when she spoke out about why black people care less about gay marriage. She traces her n descent mainly to Cameroon and the Bubi people of Bioko Island, Guinea Ecuatorial.
She has been a longtime supporter of the Pan n Film & Arts Festival of Los Angeles, serving as its publicist for ten years.
A Southern California native by way of Compton and Hermosa Beach, Jasmyne Cannick is a proud Angeleno. A former foster child, she was emancipated in 1995.