Jasmine Kerber, Author at Peninsula Press

Jasmine Kerber

Jasmine Kerber jkerber(at)stanford(dot)edu Jasmine Kerber finished her undergraduate degree in international relations at Stanford in the spring of 2020. She also minored in Russian language and wrote an interdisciplinary honors thesis in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She’s always had many interests, which is one reason she loves journalism! Jasmine has written for The Stanford Daily for the past two years and currently serves as an editor for The Daily’s graduate student beat. She spent the past summer writing features for The Sacramento Bee.

CultureOctober 19, 2020

Drive-in Circus Performers Prove the Show Must Go On

By Jasmine Kerber

REDWOOD CITY, California — Rows of cars honked their praise for a trapeze artist and a “human cannonball” at the Zoppé Italian Family Circus’ drive-in show. The circus has performed in Redwood City annually for the past thirteen years but shifted to a new format this time around to adapt to coronavirus public health guidelines. After debuting their drive-in show in Ventura in July, Zoppé brought it to Redwood City, where they will be performing through October 25. The drive-in circus represents a novel way of adjusting entertainment to an era in which large, indoor crowds are forbidden. The entertainment industry has struggled during the pandemic as music, dance and…

Health, News, TechnologyJanuary 6, 2020

In the Wild West of online medicine, crowdsourcing is the next frontier

By Jasmine Kerber

SAN FRANCISCO — Crowdsourcing diagnoses has gained traction in recent years as an unconventional approach to solving particularly tricky medical mysteries—especially when doctors struggle to resolve an illness.