MEET YASMIN TRUDEAU  

Senator Trudeau’s lived experience motivates her advocacy. She’s the product of hope and tenacity, despite growing up in poverty and violence. She grew up in a household where her single mother never learned to read or write, has experienced food insecurity, spent time in the foster care system, and navigated her way to college despite experiencing homelessness during her teenage years. She has navigated through a myriad of systems as a mixed-race, first generation woman of color and college graduate from an immigrant home. Despite the many challenges, she received support and love from people in this community during the most critical moments and she credits that as the motivation for her career in public service. It was this community support that put her on the path to receive a life-changing scholarship to pursue higher education. She graduated from Henry Foss High School in 2002 and went on to receive a law degree from Seattle University.

After law school, Trudeau served as Staff Counsel for the Senate Democratic Caucus and was the Legislative Assistant to now Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. Senator Trudeau is a licensed attorney and former Statewide Legislative Director and Tribal Affairs Manager for Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. She currently serves as Race Equity Unit Manager for the Washington State Attorney General’s Office Throughout her professional career, Yasmin has focused her efforts on using both her lived and professional experience to advocate for changes in state law. 

Her professional advocacy includes lobbying for Attorney General request legislation to prevent gun violence, stop the overprescribing of opiates, increase use of prescription monitoring program and establish strong domestic worker protections. She worked to pass legislation to prohibit youth solitary confinement, increase consumer and student loan protections, close wage theft loopholes, address unfair debt collection practices, and increase the efficacy of our state’s Medicaid Fraud Program. As the Attorney General’s Tribal Affairs Manager, she helped to implement historical policy to establish a more transparent and collaborative relationship between sovereign Tribal Governments and the State’s attorneys. 

In 2020, Senator Trudeau was appointed as a commissioner on Governor Inslee’s  Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs. She has worked to strengthen the political power of immigrant and refugee communities as a board member and former  Vice Chair for OneAmerica Votes. Motivated by love for her brother Naeem, Senator Trudeau is deeply committed to disability rights and has advocated at the State and local level.