Jasmine Fryer (she/her/hers) is Chief External Affairs Officer at BES. She leads marketing and communications, talent recruitment, and alumni engagement and community functions helping advance BES’s organizational priorities and national impact. Previously, she served as Senior Director of Strategic Growth, Chief Strategy Officer, and Acting Chief Executive Officer during the CEO’s leave.
Before joining BES, Jasmine was Director of Membership and Future Chiefs at Chiefs for Change, where she expanded the organization’s national network of system-level education leaders and led its leadership development program for aspiring state and district chiefs. Previously, she served as an Education Specialist at the New York State Education Department and as a Policy Analyst at the Nellie Mae Education Foundation. She began her career as a middle school social studies teacher through Teach For America.
Throughout her career, Jasmine has worked, studied, and conducted research across the United States, Thailand, China, Morocco, Jordan, and Israel, including serving as a Fulbright Scholar in Jordan.
Jasmine is a trustee of the Cleveland Public Library and serves on the boards of Level Field Facilities Fund and Teach For America Ohio. She previously served as a mayoral appointee to the Cleveland Metropolitan School District Board of Education.
