About the Author

Jasmine Roberts-Crews (formerly Jasmine Roberts) is a strategic communication lecturer in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University, where she teaches public relations writing, digital activism and campaign strategy. Professor Roberts-Crews earned her bachelor’s degree in communication studies and Spanish at the University of Michigan and her master’s degree in communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has worked in the marketing and public relations fields for nonprofit, entertainment, and banking industries in the United States and Spain. 

Along with her communication expertise, Professor Roberts-Crews is also a renowned open education leader. She has delivered numerous keynote presentations across the country on the topics of social justice in open education and has a TEDx talk titled “I’m tired of talking about race.” She has provided consulting to several open education organizations on how to dynamically embody social justice and equity in practice.  In her spare time, she loves to connect with her wife, fur babies (2 dogs), and green babies (40 plants total).