Jasmine Vazin, a second-year master’s student, graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a minor in Philosophy in 2014. Jasmine won an Eureka award and is published in Aquatic Ecology for her research, which involved enzyme kinetics in freshwater systems. She later received grants through the University to study parental care heritability in African cichlids and endemic salamander speciation in Tennessee. After four years of research experience in academia, Jasmine moved into the private sector. She worked at Green Source Organics as a regulatory manager in charge of locating sustainable and fairly traded food products for wholesale worldwide. She petitioned to have excess food stores donated to foodbanks around Los Angeles, and helped launch a retail line to offer healthy food options to consumers at an accessible price. While specializing in Conservation Planning at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, she is also conducting research with the Global Environmental Justice Project to quantify environmental justice violations within the United States. Since beginning this work, environmental justice has become her passion and she is interested in attending law school after graduation to be able to fight these issues in the courtroom.