Jordan Jessamy ’20
As a student, Jordan Jessamy ’20 was an active member of the campus community, earning him the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Along with his drive to help his fellow students, Jessamy was able to immerse himself in opportunities at ESF thanks to scholarship support including the Alumni Memorial Scholarship.
The Chancellor’s Award is the highest student honor in the SUNY system. Chancellor’s Award honorees excel both in academic achievement and at least one of the following areas: leadership, athletics, community service, creative and performing arts or career achievement.
Jessamy majored in environmental science with a concentration in wetlands and watershed resources and minored in applied statistics. He was active on campus as a co-founder of ESF’s Taking Root Student Peer Mentorship Program; president of the Roots and Pursuits Club; social media chair, digital content editor and lead photographer for The Knothole, the campus literary magazine; and past president of King’s Court Diversity Group.
He served as an undergraduate teaching assistant and tutor for general biology, a tour guide for ESF in the High School, a volunteer for A Tiny Home for Good service project, and was an invited speaker for a Ted X Style Talk hosted by ESF.
He had internships at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, and the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, in Chincoteague, Virginia.
“Part of the reason I was able to be so active on campus and still dedicate time to my studies was in part because of scholarships. Thanks to opportunities such as the Alumni Memorial Scholarship, I was able to be more financially secure during my time at ESF,” he said. Without that support, Jessamy would’ve had to rely on more loans or off-campus employment.
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“This would have reduced the amount of time I had to help my peers on campus in my different roles,” he said.
ESF’s strong STEM reputation drew Jessamy to the College. “At ESF, I was able to make great friends, meet incredible people amongst the faculty and staff, learn more about my passions within the environmental field, and take advantage of numerous opportunities.”
Jessamy is now enrolled in ESF’s GEPS program in the environmental monitoring and modeling subdivision. He was recruited during his senior year to be a research assistant under doctors John Stella and John Drake and worked with them on the early stages of his thesis, which will work to determine how socioeconomic factors and land cover influence urban green space structure and function in urban environments.
He will also be a Diversity Fellow with the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (OIDE) for the 2020-21 academic year. “My duties within the OIDE include developing initiatives to support my fellow men of color, collaborate with graduate students to ensure they are involved in the OIDE’s plans, and continue supporting the Taking Root Peer Mentorship Program I founded during 2019,” he said.