• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2021

• University of Colorado, Aerospace Engineering, ‘22

• Host Institution: Virgin Orbit

• Mentor: Patricia Cooper

• Brookie Mentor: Carson Brumley

Jasmin is a junior studying Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is proud to have been born and raised in the city of Chicago, where she loves exploring different worlds within the city and encountering all walks of life on the L train. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a year before transferring to Boulder and loves waking up to the mountains every day.

Jasmin has dreamt of being an astronaut since she was three years old, and has been captivated by space since then. In her childhood, she saved newspaper clippings of space news, read books about the solar system before bed, and visited Kennedy Space Center, all of which contributed to her ongoing fascination with space. One of her favorite memories is her trip to Carbondale, IL to witness the total solar eclipse in 2017 right before her senior year of high school, which further inspired her to reach for her dreams of working in the field of aerospace - and hopefully becoming an astronaut someday.

At Boulder, Jasmin is currently the Secretary of the CU Boulder chapter of SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space), the Vice Chair of the CU Boulder chapter of AIAA (American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics), and an active member of the Zeta chapter of Chi Omega. She loves working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at BioServe Space Technologies, where she helps the company support life science research experiments conducted by astronauts in the ISS National Lab, a role that constantly excites and amazes her. While her schoolwork and outside commitments keep her quite busy, Jasmin enjoys using her free time to bake for friends and coworkers, hike, and learn how to play guitar.

As a Brooke Owens Fellow, Jasmin is elated to join the team at Virgin Orbit to continue opening space for everyone.