Jaye Wilson (She/her) is an experienced researcher with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a double minor in Public Health and Environmental Geosciences from Texas A&M University. She is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Ph.D. student at Yale School of Environment, translating her love for fashion, organic, and polymeric chemistry into the Environment.

While environmental justice and STEM equity sit at the forefront of all her endeavors, Jaye’s academic activism path focuses specifically on developments that create better materials and recycling systems to address the plastics pollution in the textile industry. When she is not in the lab, you can find her at a farmers market, baking, picnicking with friends, or taking pictures in her second-hand outfits.