Jasmine DeGuzman Lacsamana
Program Officer
Jasmine DeGuzman Lacsamana is a Program Officer at Archstone Foundation, where she helps advance initiatives that strengthen health and long-term services and supports for older adults and the people who care for them. Since joining the Foundation in 2015, she has brought more than 20 years of experience spanning nonprofit leadership, philanthropy, and academic research. Her work at Archstone includes designing and implementing a multi-year effort to build the capacity and long-term sustainability of Adult Day Services programs as a vital support for family caregivers. She also oversees grantmaking and partnerships focused on family caregiving, dementia care integration, health systems, nonprofit capacity building, Medi-Cal learning collaboratives, and support for safety-net programs.
Before Archstone, Jasmine worked to advance more equitable health outcomes for Pacific Islander communities through community-partnered interventions at the Weaving an Islander Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (WINCART) Center, funded by the National Cancer Institute. At California State University, Fullerton, she managed a multi-million-dollar NCI-funded community-based participatory research program focused on Pacific Islander women’s health in Southern California. Her earlier experience includes community programming with the American Red Cross, supporting youth mentorship, leadership development, disaster preparedness, health education, and volunteer engagement.
Jasmine serves on the Board of Directors of Grantmakers In Aging and previously served as Board Secretary and Chair of the Governance Committee. She remains active in her local faith community, including leadership roles with Being the Church, Long Beach. Jasmine earned an MPH in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a BA in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine, and she is currently pursuing a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Executive Management at San Diego State University as a member of the program’s inaugural cohort.
