Jasmine Whitlow is a 17-year-old, incoming freshman at the University of Kentucky. She graduated from Louisville Male Traditional High School in Louisville, Ky. She is the daughter of Denise and Marvin Malone and the sibling of older brother Corey James who is in marketing sales for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Jasmine is a very outgoing, open-minded type of person, but at the same time is aware of her surroundings and can be complicated. She has an alter ego named Jazzmina who just doesn’t care about anything and takes risk.

Jasmine eventually wants to be her own boss with her own magazine agency, and write and publish at least three books by 25 years of age. But before this she will finish her college years by ending with a master’s degree in English.

Jasmine has been on Honor Roll her past four years of high school and kept an overall 3.5 GPA. “ I have been published in three youth journals, won a black history essay contest and been published in Teen Ink Magazine for my poetry,” Jasmine said.

Jasmine’s family tends to keep her motivated although some people seem to misunderstand her motive of being career orientated. She has had to live up to her brother’s standards and overcome the challenge of establishing her own identity within her family and herself. During these times she had to find a way to express herself and found it through writing. “Writing and helping people has always been my passion. When I write I know I can be me and there is no one there to judge me. It opens my eyes to what I can do,” Jasmine said.

Although Jasmine is about her business, she still finds time to hang out with friends and go to parties. She is keeping her eye out for that clean-cut, educated, respectful, motivated, cute guy. With that in the back of her mind her main focus is to take advantage of all of the opportunities to come ahead and not let anyone hold her back. Jasmine said, “ My purpose in life is to fulfill the plans God has for me.” What doors He does open for her, she will go through.

Profile written by Ashley Beeler