POWER ALUMNI
DR. JASMINE SHANELLE STREETER, DVM
D r. Jasmine Shanelle Streeter has been called to heal animals great and small since youth. Even before she knew the term veterinarian, she knew how important animals were in her life. Dr. Streeter is rare, making up only 1.3% of veterinarians in the United States who identify as African American. Determined to succeed, Dr. Streeter chose Tuskegee University School of Veterinary Medicine as her first and only school of choice. More than 70 percent of the nation’s African- American veterinarians are
educated by Tuskegee University. It is the only veterinary medical professional program located on the campus of a historically Black college or university (HBCU) in the United States. She excelled and was inducted in the only veterinary honor society in the United States, Rho Chapter of Phi Zeta, and graduated cum laude with her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 2015. Dr. Streeter never missed an opportunity to provide care and journeyed to Nicaragua to work with veterinary missions. With the focus on One Medicine, One
Health being at the center of her core belief system, she worked at the United States Department of Agriculture and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to study how infectious diseases are spread. Dr. Streeter also earned her Bachelor of Science in Animal, Poultry and Veterinary Science(s) from Tuskegee University in 2011, where she received the Presidential Merit Scholarship and Munday Scholarship for Most Promising Animal Science Student Award. During her tenure at Tuskegee, she was an
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