Jasmin Santana is a Cleveland City Council member representing Ward 14. The first Latina member,[1] she serves as majority whip.[2]
Santana was born in Cleveland at MetroHealth around 1979.[3][4] She graduated from Cleveland Metropolitan School District schools and Lincoln West High School.[5] Her mother is a native of Puerto Rico.[6] Santana has two teenage children.[7]
Santana developed a breast cancer outreach program at MetroHealth.[3]
In 2017, Santana was elected to Cleveland City Council in Ward 14.[2] She was named majority whip in 2021.[8] She advocates for Spanish language access[2] and a more coordinated welcome for immigrants.[9][10] She advocated for CentroVilla25, a multi-stalled market that ends the food desert in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood.[11]