Yasmine Ware - Associate

Yasmine Ware is an associate in Raben’s Government Affairs practice, where she uses her significant experience conducting in-depth research to help her clients' priorities advance.

Before joining Raben, Yasmine worked with the House Committee on Homeland Security through the Truman Summer Institute, where she conducted legislative and policy research, drafted congressional memoranda, and supported hearing preparation on homeland and national security issues. She first worked with the Committee in 2023 as an intern with the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, where she interviewed Rep. Bennie Thompson and the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. Her policy experience also includes examining nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament at United Nations institutions in Geneva and Vienna.

Yasmine is also the founder of Yasmine’s Warehouse, an award-winning multimedia platform exploring history, culture, and public life through documentary, podcasting, and digital storytelling. Her work has garnered more than 1.2 million views across platforms, won the New York Times Learning Network’s 4th Annual Podcast Contest, and led to White House press credentials for the 2023 Juneteenth Concert.
Through Yasmine’s Warehouse, she also directs The Mound Bayou Memoirs, a documentary and oral history project preserving the history of one of the nation’s oldest Black-founded towns, with related work presented at Harvard Law School and discussed at a workshop at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

Yasmine earned her bachelor's degree at the University of Mississippi, where she studied International Studies, Chinese, and Intelligence Security Studies. She is Mississippi’s 2025 Harry S. Truman Scholar, a Stamps Scholar, and a member of the University of Mississippi Hall of Fame. At the University of Mississippi, she founded OneUM, a cross-cultural dialogue initiative facilitating conversations across differences, and served as president of the Undergraduate Black Law Students Association. Originally from Madison, Mississippi, Yasmine spends her free time songwriting, exploring museums, and searching for the perfect matcha latte.