Yasmin Abdulhadi
Program Officer, Education
Yasmin Abdulhadi is a Program Officer, Education for the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, focusing on the K-12 education grants portfolio. Yasmin's career has been shaped by a deep commitment to educational and economic equity, beginning in the classroom as a 2017 Teach For America corps member in Memphis, where she taught elementary math and later redesigned KIPP Memphis's high school business program to include financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and accounting courses. Her time as an educator fueled a broader interest in the systems and strategies that shape opportunity, leading her to pursue an MBA at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
During and after her MBA, Yasmin brought together her education roots and business training across a range of roles: she evaluated investments in future-of-work startups as a VC associate at Kapor Center's Roble Ventures, advised the National Bankers Association on strategies to strengthen minority depository institutions, led an employment pathways initiative at Slingshot Memphis that raised $3 million to serve poverty-affected communities, and delivered strategy consulting engagements at Bain & Company spanning product development, cost optimization, and private equity diligence.
Throughout her career, Yasmin has also mentored young people as a Kode with Klossy web development instructor and as a success coach with Backrs, a professional networks app for students. She holds an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, and a B.S. in Business Administration from The Ohio State University.