Jasmina Nogo

Jasmina joined the NC Justice Center’s Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in 2024 as an immigration staff attorney. As an immigrant to the U.S. herself, she has fought in the struggle for immigrants’ rights in North Carolina and beyond since the mid 1990s. Prior to joining the NC Justice Center, Jasmina worked as a community resources attorney at the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project where she developed resources for asylum seekers from around the world, and as a mental health attorney at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project in Arizona, where she represented people with mental illnesses who were detained and facing the U.S. immigration system.

Jasmina also worked as a students’ rights attorney at the Right to Education Project, a statewide education justice project of Legal Aid of North Carolina, as a movement paralegal at Forward Justice, and as a creative writing instructor at N.C. State. She is a fan of the public universities of the Triangle, holding her B.A. in Journalism from UNC Chapel Hill, her JD from NC Central University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from NC State.

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