Yasmin Neal is a native of Georgia. She is currently going into her 4th term or 7th year as an elected member of the Georgia House of Representatives and she was the youngest member of the GA House of Representatives from 2011-2013; elected at the age of 25 years old. 


Political


Yasmin currently sits on the following committees: Public Safety & Homeland Security, Judiciary Non-Civil (crafts criminal laws for the state), Juvenile Justice and Economic Development and Tourism. Yasmin was also appointed to the Public Safety Salary Committee and charged with determining law enforcement pay in the State of Georgia. Yasmin was recently appointed to the State Commission on Civic Education by the Speaker of the House.


Yasmin has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice, an MBA in Global Management, and attended the Women’s Campaign School @Yale Law; Yale University; Trade school certification in Avionics (Aviation). 

Yasmin has trained at the following: 

  • Yale University (Women’s Campaign School @Yale Law)

  • Georgia Tech Univ. (Blue Institute Campaign Training) 

  • University of Georgia (Political Leadership Training)

  • White House Project (Women’s Political Training)

  • GA Win List (Women’s Political Training Speaker/Attendee) 

Yasmin is the Chair of the Clayton County Legislative Delegation. 

As of July 2021, Governor Brian Kemp signed Rep. Neal’s Bill, Bill 236 which protects victims & domestic violence victims; into law in the state of GA.  Yasmin had her Mental Health legislation, HB 571, included in the Mental Health Omnibus bill that was signed by the Governor in 2022.  The Governor also signed HB404, Tenants rights bill which included her bill, House Bill 304 that protects Georgia renters during the 2023-2024 session. The Governor also signed two additional local bills which adds huge housing protections to her citizens. Yasmin has negotiated local funding for her county and thousands and thousands of dollars for her local 501c3 charities. 

Yasmin has also worked closely with U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff who has recently dropped their bill Senate Bill 4944, in the United States Senate to change the underwriting process to allow United States citizens a higher chance of obtaining a mortgage loan by making it mandatory for the credit bureaus to include positive rental payments into citizens credit histories,The bill is currently pending in the United States Senate. 

Yasmin has also sponsored legislation to clean up the criminal code, reduce arrests, increase access to capital, increase housing supply, reduce food deserts, uplift small businesses, increase Police pay, increase teacher pay, protect senior citizens and more. 

Life Experience

Yasmin spent 2 years as a Biomedical Engineer for GE Healthcare during the years of COVID, when the hospitals called upon those trained in Aviation and Engineering to help the hospitals during that time. Yasmin worked in hospitals on the EMORY Healthcare network. Yasmin was a police officer/detective and on the Chief’s Staff at the Clayton County Police Department, specializing in policy and accreditation. She was a Detective in the Major Felony Unit (Homicide, Rape, Robbery, Child Crimes etc.). Yasmin has conducted undercover operations with FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshalls, ATF and more. Yasmin also sat on the Conduct Review Board with the Police agency and was charged with reviewing Use of Force cases involving police officers and determining their need for punishment, exoneration, or termination. 

Yasmin also worked at the Sheriff’s Department as an Internal Affairs/ Backgrounds and Hiring Investigator, and then as an Investigator in the Fugitive Unit (working undercover).  Formerly, Yasmin has also worked for the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles.

Yasmin is on the board of Southern Regional Hospital, the Deans Advisory board of Clayton State University and was on the School of Criminal Justice advisory board at ITT Tech University as well. She also lectured at ITT Tech in the Criminal Justice courses. She has been a member of countless boards and a panelist for countless organizations and events. She has also won a number of awards for her social justice efforts, such as:

  • Conservation Award; Ga Conservation Voters

  • Future is Now Award (Young Dems of Atlanta)

  • Political Advocate Award (Urban League of Greater Atlanta)

  • Star Award (Ga League of Women Voters)

Yasmin has lectured at an expansive list of K-12 schools, colleges and universities; to include: Spelman, Morehouse, Southern Polytech, Clayton State University to Women’s political courses and American Government courses. Yasmin has also lectured at a variety of law related venues to include the Georgia State Bar and being the headliner for the FBI lecture series in 2023. 

Yasmin also has an expansive list of philanthropic achievements as well.

Additionally, Yasmin has brought in developers to her community to build homes for her citizens, due to housing supply shortage. She has held countless Senior Citizen events, gun safety events in partnership with the school system where they distribute free gun locks. Yasmin has successfully negotiated on behalf of her citizens to help them stay in their homes, retain their personal property, recover unemployment funds and more.

Yasmin made national news and went viral in 2012 for the Anti-Vasectomy Bill she drafted while in the House of Representatives, House Bill 1116. The controversial bill earned nationwide and international news. Yasmin was interviewed live on CNN, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, the Young Turks, BET including being featured on, but not limited to; CNN, CBS “The Doctors” show, Current TV, EBONY, BET, Jezebel Magazine, V103 (radio), 102.5 (radio), NPR (radio), Huffington Post, Telemundo going viral on YouTube, trending on Twitter; and countless news media outlets in the United States and abroad. The bill was drafted as a response to the controversial GA Abortion Bill, which impeded upon women’s reproductive rights in GA. As a result of the bill and media pressure, the author of the Ga Abortion Bill lost his election.

Since then, yearly, Yasmin has been included in collegiate textbooks such as: Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics and has been the topic of various college lectures and dissertations on her work in the Georgia House of Representatives. The moment was affectionately known as the first time a woman has challenged men's rights in this manner.

Filmmaker

In 2005, Yasmin interned at the Georgia Capitol with Georgia Public Broadcasting on the nightly political tv show “Lawmakers” which covered House and Senate sessions at the Capitol. Yasmin was also a writer for the Clayton News Daily, Henry Daily Herald Newspaper and wrote for The Spectator, which is the newspaper at Valdosta State University.

 Additionally, Yasmin is an award winning Writer/Director/Producer. Yasmin has won countless awards across the nation and internationally. She was the Jack Daniels Filmmaker finalist and received a tv licensing deal with  “REVOLT TV” network. Her films have also gone viral with a viewership of over 400 million people across the world and counting and earning the praises of Oscar award winner Viola Davis and countless other celebrities and notable figures. Her most recent social justice film “Target Practice” has won awards across the social justice realm and has been shown at Morehouse University (Spike Lee Award Finalist), Pepperdine University, Loyola University (Los Angeles), Social Justice Film Festival in New York, Social Justice Now Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize Winner), just to name a few and her recent film, Counterterror is currently going viral as we speak.