While some teens in her Marietta housing project were cruising for drugs or kicks, Jazma Parker would be driving slowly through some rich neighborhood, marveling at the way those people lived.
She was among the young people in Lyman Homes who did their homework, who stayed off the troubled corners. She liked watching TV cop shows like "Law and Order" and "CSI," and she dreamed of becoming an investigator.
In a few weeks, Jazma expects her dream will start coming true, as she begins a job screening the backgrounds of prospective federal employees for a company that works with a federal personnel agency. It's not the FBI, but it's a start.
Jazma is a graduate of UWG, and truly an inspiring story.
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