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Jazmine da Costa is a presenter, producer, and blogger for the award-winning educational series - ProjectExplorer.org.

Jazmine da Costa is one of the few twenty somethings living in New York City who is actually from New York City. Her hunger for travel began in high school after going abroad to Italy and Australia with EF Tours. It was then she knew culture was at the forefront of her interest, and so she became an anthropology student at Princeton University.  

While at Princeton, Ms. da Costa developed a passion for cultural anthropology. A study abroad opportunity to France with the Anthropology Department facilitated the discovery of yet another great passion: archaeology. While in Bordeaux in 2007, Jazmine excavated a 30,000 year old Neanderthal carving site in Les Pradelles. In the summer of 2008, Ms. da Costa studied abroad in Istanbul, Turkey and participated in a supplementary dig of a 13th century cistern.

Jazmine has produced and acted in a play entitled, "The Testimony Project: An American Apocalypse" (2008). The performance synthesized over 200 personal stories that investigated the ethics of empathy and touched on personal beliefs concerning faith, sexuality and politics in the midst of tragedy.

Jazmine has worked with the Oral History Department at the National September 11 Memorial Museum and for Narativ, Inc., a storytelling consulting company based in Manhattan.

Ms. da Costa's background in storytelling benefits her position as Community Correspondent with ProjectExplorer.org. In this role, Ms. da Costa serves as a bridge between the students and the crew members, both on the website and on location. She is an ambassador and liaison for the company, visiting local schools where she recounts stories from the 13 countries she has visited or answers questions on travel, culture, non-profit organizations, and ProjectExplorer.org's various series.

Ms. da Costa also serves as a photographer, shooter, scribe, and high school travel blogger. ProjectExplorer's "Mucho Mexico" series to be launched in September of 2010.

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