Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Jasmine Sears moved to Los Angeles to study environmental studies at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2017. While a student, she worked at various fashion companies, thereby developing a passion for and expertise in sustainability in the textile sector. She has also served as the vice president of USC’s Fashion Industry Association and as the Fashion & Aesthetic director for the school’s Black Student Assembly. In order to develop an international perspective on issues of commerce and the environment, Jasmine conducted research in China on global consumer culture through USC’s Global East Asian Studies Center. She graduated from USC in December 2020.
Jasmine has been working at Google since 2021. There, she helps organize weekly climate talks for Anthropocene, the company’s climate interest group. She has participated in Audubon’s Coastal Leadership Program, where she completed a capstone research project on Black Angelenos’ relationships with the Los Angeles coast and birding.
Jasmine’s Fulbright-Nehru research project is examining the opportunity to expand the adoption of wastewater treatment practices across India’s textile sector in order to improve water quality and economic, social, and environmental outcomes. She is analyzing local industry conditions in Mumbai and Tirupur, and interviewing textile company wastewater treatment leaders to develop scalable frameworks which non-compliant textile businesses can follow in determining how to manage their effluent output.