Yasmina Hasni is the founder of AKAR Family, a Jakarta-based early childhood social enterprise she has been building since 2015. It runs Roots Daycare, Preschool and Kindergarten, Healthy Roots, and the Parenting is Easy community, serves more than 400 families, and holds TARA UTAMA, Indonesia’s highest daycare quality certification.
In 2021, on Kartini Day, she founded Yayasan AKAR PERI BUMI, a family-school climate behavior-change movement now active across 11 Indonesian provinces through IBU ASAKA (mother ambassadors), KAPTEN KEPIK (child ambassadors aged 9–13), PRASAMA (partnerships) and TERAMI (a professional facilitator network).
Yasmina developed the connection-based curriculum used across AKAR, the MYROOTSY system that holds it together, and The Genuine Leadership, a philosophy of leading by staying rooted in order to lift others up. Before founding AKAR, she was a journalist at Republika. She holds a degree in Social Welfare Science from Universitas Padjadjaran.
She is an Our Kids Climate Parent Fellow, an OMLAS fellow and peer mentor-reviewer, a member of Catalyst Now, a TEDx speaker, a Top 6 finalist in the UN Women Asia Pacific Care Accelerator, and a published essayist at The Relationships Project.