Jasmine Clark Wins Democratic Primary in Georgia’s 7th Congressional District
Jasmine Clark, who holds a Ph.D. in microbiology, won a Democratic primary last week and expects to begin serving in the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2027.
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U.S. House of Representatives. D. in microbiology from Emory University in 2013. For most graduate students in science, a teaching assistantship is mainly a way to pay the bills as they pursue a research career.
But for Clark, that role allowed her to find her true calling. “Being a science educator really, really spoke to me,” Clark said. ” For more than a decade she has been an instructor at Emory’s nursing school.
In 2018, she was elected to the Georgia state legislature, where she has been an advocate for improving health care access and services. C. S.
House of Representatives about the importance of using science to set policy.
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