Brenai Smith

Brenai Smith never knew immediately what her life path would look like growing up. She had a talent in the arts and even achieved a scholarship with the School Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but she couldn’t see herself having a career in it. So she joined the U.S. Air Force as an enlisted member for the benefits, namely education and independence. It was through this career in the military that she achieved an Associates in Applied Science: Entomology while simultaneously meeting other like-minded souls in the public health and environmental field. She realized working alongside them gave her more purpose than she had ever felt before and wanted to dive deeper into that world. But unfortunately, where the military wanted her to progress was not in line with her personal goals. Now, ten years later, she is an environmental science major at University of Arizona, ardent to see where this path can take her and who she can help along the way.