Jasmine Burton
About
Jasmine Burton graduated with an IB diploma from the Riverwood International Charter School in Sandy Spring, GA in May 2010. She proceeded to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology where she was a President’s Scholarship Award recipient and Honors Program participant throughout her collegiate career. During her time in college, Burton excelled both in and out of the classroom evidenced by her induction in the Omicron Delta Kappa and Order of Omega Honors Societies.
Additionally, Burton was a GT student ambassador, founder of the college of architecture ambassadors program and was the overall conference chair for the GT Women’s Leadership conference in 2013. Burton had a host of professional points of growth while in college during her 2012 internship with Chick-fila-A corporate, 2013 participation in the CDC’s Summer Public Health Scholars Program, 2014 fellowship with Humanity in Action in Warsaw Poland and her 2015 fellowship with Global Health Corps in Lusaka, Zambia. Burton graduated with Highest Honors from the Georgia Tech School of Architecture with a Bachelor’s of Science in Industrial Design.
Prior to graduation, Burton founded Wish for WASH, LLC, a social impact startup intended to bring innovation to sanitation after her senior design team was the first all-female team to win the GT InVenture Prize Competition for their invention of the SafiChoo toilet in 2014. Burton is currently pursuing as a Master’s in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. Moving forward, she plans to continue using her skill set in design to advocate for and promote universal health through global social innovation work. Burton identifies as a global citizen and her motivation to use her creativity to make the world smile.