Ainsley Jessup

Ainsley Jessup, a sophomore from Mahomet, Illinois, went from soloing her way across Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis as a part of her high school marching band to rubbing elbows with students of food science and professionals in the field at the AFA Food Institute in Chicago, Illinois. The food science, nutrition and health promotion major says that she hopes to share with prospective students the vast array of opportunities available to them through CALS, and once she's graduated, she hopes to use the opportunities she's taken advantage of to propel her through graduate school and eventually to her own lab as a food microbiologist.