Belpre’s Wright joining Ohio AG’s Teen Ambassador Board
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MARIETTA -- Belpre High School junior Jasmine Wright next week will be offering her perspective on issues facing teens in southeast Ohio and beyond at the state level.
Wright on Monday will participate in the Ohio Attorney General's Teen Ambassador Board, which includes meeting with representatives of Attorney General Dave Yost's office and a tour of the statehouse. Wright spoke briefly about her participation in the program, which consists of public and private high school students from around the state, during Thursday's Washington County Commission meeting.
"We get to talk to the Ohio attorney general and some of his people about the problems we see," she said.
Wright said she wants to focus on ways to provide opportunities and programming to students in rural and Appalachian schools. A lot of her peers in this area feel their career options are limited, she said.
"I want to show them that they can do anything they want to, besides nursing or working at a plant," Wright said.
Those are both good job opportunities, she added, but they may not be for everybody.
"When you don't find your true passion … you're not going to enjoy what you're doing," Wright said.
Wright explored her prospective future career this summer working in the Washington County Prosecutor's Office as part of the Comprehensive Case Management and Employment Program, a youth job services effort through the local Job and Family Services office. That program, which has led the county to hire at least two full-time employees from its ranks, was also highlighted at Thursday's commission meeting.
Wright attended various meetings and assisted with filing at the prosecutor's office. Job coach Brenda Robinson said she reached out to Wright after reading about her aspirations to a legal career in The Marietta Times' Teen of the Week feature earlier this year.
Prosecutor Nicole Coil said she was "beyond thrilled" to have Wright in the office.
"She's going to do great things, and I can only hope she's going to do them in my office some day," she said.
Wright said her long-term goal is to become a United States Supreme Court justice.