Jasmine Mouton

I started in the transportation sales industry in January of 2024, working for Hop, Skip, Drive, where we facilitate transportation for students who are experiencing homelessness or who may have an IEP. I partner with different school districts to figure out opportunities where we might be able to support more students, and I currently manage across 10 plus school districts. Before this, I was a teacher for 6 years. After graduating from Howard, I got into a sales role but really wasn't that fulfilled. Then one day I saw the movie Waiting for Superman, and there was this one statistic about how they build out prisons based on third grade Black and Brown Boys' reading scores. That just kept me up night after night, and I figured I needed to do something about it. So that's how I started teaching. But then I wanted to expand my impact a little bit more - in a classroom, you reach about 112 students a year total, but I wanted to expand beyond that. So I got out, got back into sales, but I still wanted to be education-adjacent. The transportation part is really fulfilling for me because it's like a full circle. When I look back at the students that we serve, I could have actually used this service when I was growing up, going from home to home, staying at this aunt's house. If I would have had a Hop, Skip, Drive around, it would have made such a difference. I was named SDR of the Year, where I made the most calls and set the most meetings with my team.