Lavender, Jay

In May 1993, twenty-year-old Jasmina Dervisevic escaped the genocide and arrived in Boston as the first Bosnian refugee granted permission to seek medical care in America. Over twenty years later, Jasmina still calls the Boston area home. She has a degree in business administration, runs her own real estate company and is a licensed insurance agent. A happily remarried mother of two children, Jasmina is a frequent guest speaker at schools and community events where she shares the remarkable story of her memoir, The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet.