Jasmine Brown

Jasmine Brown is an American author and medical student. She is the author of the 2023 book, Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century.

Life Brown lived in Indiana during her childhood and she frequently visited extended family members in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2014, Brown graduated from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey. She was a member of its track and field, the National Honor Society, and the Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica. She majored in biology with a focus in neuroscience.

In late 2017, Brown won a Rhodes Scholarship. In January 2018, the township committee of Hillsborough Township honored Brown with a proclamation for her Rhodes selection. She researched the impacts of Black women physicians in medicine and American society. In January 2023, during her third year of medical school, she authored a book based on her earlier research on Black women in medicine. In it, Brown profiles nine physicians including Rebecca Lee Crumpler, May Edward Chinn, and Marilyn Gaston.