JASMINE AMOAKO-AGYEI,

Community Manager, Emerging Technologists

Jasmine Amoako-Agyei is a public speaker, climate educator, award-winning social entrepreneur, and alumnus of Arizona State University - Barrett, The Honors College with a background in Business, Sustainability, and Technological Entrepreneurship. She is passionate about the intersection between human rights, the environment, and sustainable development, specifically focusing on marginalized communities disproportionately affected by Climate Change. Her work as a 2020 Millennium Fellow led to her founding her startup, Countdown: Circular Economy Solutions, an early-stage global technology startup taking a community-centered approach to tackling plastic pollution in Ghana, West Africa, and the US. Jasmine leads the creative direction and project management of the Countdown CES student teams at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, the Luminosity Lab, Ashesi University, and Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) at ASU. Jasmine is the Community Manager of Emerging Technologists at Millennium Campus Partners through the new partnership with Schmidt Futures. She is also the Strategic Initiatives Coordinator at the Arizona State University Luminosity Lab. In this interdisciplinary student-led innovation lab, top student talent at ASU develops novel solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. Jasmine is also a Sustainability Educator at the Herberger Young Scholars Academy, a unique school designed specifically for highly gifted learners. Through a curriculum she designed, Jasmine utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to introducing middle and high school students to social impact, sustainability, design, entrepreneurship, and systems thinking.