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Chief InfluencerInfluential Voices: A Celebration of Women Leaders - Chief Influencer - Episode # 090Today, we’re featuring some of the most inspiring guests we’ve had on the show - and it just so happens they are all women. You’ll hear from Oscar winner turned Trevor Project Founder Peggy Rajski, former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, CNN Hero Yasmine Arrington, White House Cyber Czar Camille Stewart Gloster, ad agency legend Cary Hatch, Points of Light CEO Jennifer Sirangelo, healthcare innovator Silvia Taylor, Science luminary Maya Ajmera, Substack influencer Lia Haberman, and Accenture diversity champion Nedra Dickson. This powerful episode dives into authentic leadership and the art of influenc...2025-02-1251 min
The BACK CommunityYasmine Arrington Brooks Interview with TBCConnect with Yazzie
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Tune in for our conversation with Yasmine Arrington Brooks in Washington, DC. Yasmine is the Founder and Executive Director of ScholarCHIPS a non-profit that provides college scholarships, mentoring, and mental health supports to young adults. She is a motivational speaker, model and the 2023 recipient of the CNN Hero award.
Prepare to be Inspired!
2025-01-221h 09
Flip Your ScriptYasmine Arrington Brooks: From Incarcerated Parents to Empowering ScholarsYasmine Arrington Brooks grew up with her parents behind bars. When she started applying for college, she noticed a lack of scholarships for students in her situation. She founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, which offers scholarships, mentorship and a peer support network for students with incarcerated parents. In this episode of Flip Your Script with Kristi Piehl, Yasmine discusses how ScholarCHIPS started and the inspiring stories from some of the scholars who are changing their life trajectory.2024-08-1336 min
1 Girl Revolution221: ScholarCHIPS - Yasmine Arrington BrooksThis week on The 1 Girl Revolution Podcast, we welcome Yasmine Arrington Brooks, founder of ScholarCHIPS - a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships and mentorship to children with incarcerated parents to help them complete their college education and chase their dreams. Yasmine was the child of incarcerated parents, so knows first-hand the struggles and difficulties that other children with incarcerated parents face. Yasmine founded ScholarCHIPS to help other children just like her to support them through scholarships, mentorship, and a peer support network to help them complete their college education. To date, ScholarCHIPS has awarded over $450,000 in college...2024-07-2446 min
Chief InfluencerYasmine Arrington Brooks on Remembering “You Never Know Who’s Watching” - Chief Influencer - Episode # 041Yasmine Arrington Brooks is the Founder of ScholarCHIPS, a D.C. nonprofit aiding youth with incarcerated parents. She is also a speaker, model, author, poet, and host of Millennial Minds. Yasmine has been honored as a 2023 CNN Hero, and 2021 Washington Business Journal Top 40 Under 40, among others in recognition of her community service and engagement.In today’s episode, she delves into her journey that began in high school at the age of 16, when she initiated ScholarCHIPS as a social venture within the LearnServe Fellows Program. Since then, she has overseen ScholarCHIPS' distribution of over $450,000 in...2024-03-0641 min
The PM PodcastDisruptor: A Conversation with Yasmine Arrington Brooks, a 2023 Top Ten CNN HeroIn this episode, we speak with Yasmine Arrington Brooks, Founder of ScholarCHIPS and one of the Top Ten CNN Heroes of 2023. Since 2010, her organization has provided renewable scholarships, book awards, and mentoring to college-bound youth with incarcerated parents. We learn about her discovery, at age 15, that there were no scholarships dedicated to aspiring students like herself with incarcerated parents, arguably among the most in need and vulnerable, and how she developed a program that now provides a way for those like her to attend and graduate from college.
2023-12-231h 07
Choose to be CuriousEp. #210: ScholarCHIPS: Curiosity with Social Entrepreneur Yasmine Arrington BrooksYasmine Arrington Brooks was a teenager when she became the potential answer to a challenge. The child of incarcerated parents with a passion for making things happen, she founded ScholarCHIPS and hasn't looked back since.
ScholarCHIPS provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health supports, and a peer support network to college-bound young adults who have incarcerated parents, inspiring them to complete their college education.
I've been a Yazzie fan for a long time and I wondered: what would she say about how curiosity contributes to the work of social entrepreneurship?
ScholarCHIPS: https://www.scholarchipsfund.org
Theme music by Sean Balick; “Front Run...2023-12-1328 min
Millennial Minds with YazzieSpeaksMillennial Minds Eps 54 Political Series: The Brooks Report IYazzie speaks with James Brooks, our recurring political commentator during the Senate Impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. This interview took place a few days before the Senate's vote. The House of Representatives had already filled Articles of Impeachment on President Donald Trump. On February 5, 2020 a supermajority in the Senate voted against the charge of abuse of power and against the charge of obstruction of Congress, which acquitted the president.2020-02-1428 min