Jasmine Davis-Randolph

Jasmine Davis-Randolph, Ph.D., is the strategy officer for research at Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. She works across strategy areas, managing grants and synthesizing key learnings from our work to share internally and with the field.

Davis-Randolph brings extensive experience in applied research and systems change, with expertise across education, workforce, and health equity. She joins Lumina from the American Institutes for Research, where she co-led qualitative and mixed-methods studies on topics such as community college retention, credentials of value, and equitable access to unemployment insurance. Prior to AIR, she held research and leadership roles at Opportunity@Work, where she helped build inclusive labor market strategies and developed research frameworks. She also interned at the RAND Corporation, conducting behavioral health research on military service members of color.

She holds master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology, and a master’s in applied statistics from Indiana University Bloomington, as well as a bachelor’s in sociology from UCLA. Her research blends human-centered design, qualitative inquiry, and statistical rigor, all in service of creating opportunities for those who have been historically and systemically left out.