Jasmine Clark Wins Democratic Primary in Safely Blue Suburban Atlanta District
Microbiologist and Georgia state legislator Jasmine Clark will enter Congress in January 2027 as the first Black woman with a science Ph.D.
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D. in microbiology from Emory University in 2013. Clark has taught at Emory’s nursing school for more than a decade. She said the teaching assistant role during graduate school revealed her calling.
“Being a science educator really, really spoke to me,” Clark said. ” Clark was elected to the Georgia state legislature in 2018. There she has advocated for improving health care access and services.
C. S. House of Representatives about the importance of using science to set policy.
For most graduate students in science, a teaching assistantship is mainly a way to pay the bills as they pursue a research career. Clark’s experience diverged from that path.
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