Jasmine Sherman of North Carolina is running for president as a Green Party candidate. Courtesy photo

Having been a member of the Green Party since 2016, Jasmine Sherman of North Carolina is now seeking her party’s nomination for president.

Despite being a political newcomer, Sherman is no stranger to the business world. She has held high level positions with some of the premier financial institutions in the country including Wells Fargo and Bank of America. She is currently the executive director of Greater Charlotte Rise in Mecklenburg County, N.C.

If elected, Sherman said addressing climate change would be a top priority as many federal lawmakers have turned a blind eye to it.

“A climate emergency needs to be called on day one, temperatures are rising,” she said. “We don’t just talk about solutions, we’re ready to act on them on day one, we don’t have time to wait.”

She also said America can no longer be dependent on fossil fuels, adding that President Joe Biden has only added to that dependency.

“Biden has authorized more drilling in Alaska than [former President] Donald Trump did,” said Sherman. “We should be on 100 percent renewable energy.”

She said that in April 2023, approximately 18,000 cows were killed in a methane explosion at the South Fork Dairy Farm in Castro County, Texas.

“That’s a lot of methane in the air,” said Sherman.

She also called attention to the 71 million metric tons of carbon dioxide that Amazon vehicles spew into the air every year.

“Amazon is one of our biggest polluters,” she said.

At 38 years old, Sherman is one of the younger candidates seeking the nomination which will be announced at the Green Party National Convention in July.

“I’m what younger people want, society is on my side,” she said.

Should she win the nomination, Sherman would have a tall task in front of her. Never in the Green Party’s 40-year history has one of its candidates won the presidency. Ralph Nadar of Connecticut came the closest during the 2000 election, garnering 2.7 percent of the vote.