Jazmin Peralta

Dr. Jazmin A. Peralta (she/they) serves as Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Pratt Institute, where they lead institution-wide strategy to advance equity, belonging, and accountability across a diverse campus community.

A transformative justice scholar-practitioner with nearly two decades of experience, Dr. Peralta’s work focuses on dismantling structural inequities within education systems. Their research examines how higher education institutions reproduce carceral logics through policy and practice, and how these systems shape the experiences of systems-impacted students. Their work advances approaches that center collective care, non-punitive responses to harm, and structural change.

Dr. Peralta brings a trauma-informed, restorative, and justice-centered lens to their leadership, with a strong track record of translating complex frameworks into actionable strategies that support belonging, agency, and thriving—particularly for historically marginalized communities.

Their commitment to this work is deeply personal. Dr. Peralta draws on lived experiences as an Afro-Latine, first-generation, queer, non-conforming, and neurodivergent to inform their advocacy and to help build educational environments that are affirming, accountable, and designed for all students to succeed.

• Doctor of Education, Higher Education Administration – Northeastern University
• Master of Science – Higher Education, Student Affairs –Purdue University Global
• Bachelor of Arts – Spanish Language & Literature and Mass Communication – Florida State University

The Carceral State: Examining Higher Education’s Carceral Legacies and the Praxis of Repair