Doctoral student receives 2017 NAACP Image Award
Jasmine Jenkins, a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, was recently honored with a 2017 Image Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Jenkins is passionate about mitigating the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately funnels primarily black and brown children from the classroom to prison cells. As a result, a majority of her clinical work is focused on helping black youth.
The counseling psychology field values social justice, advocacy,and multiculturalism," said Jenkins. “This led to my desire to enter the PhD program in counseling psychology at the University of Georgia.