In college, Jarvis began documenting her life as a first-generation student at an HBCU, posting about her daily life, classes, and experiences on social media. What started as a creative outlet during COVID quickly turned into something more. She began working with brands, including Amazon, and realized she had found a career path.
“I was like, okay, I really like social media and marketing,” she said. “That passion and drive to do social media kept gnawing at me.”
After graduating, she decided to pursue that interest further, enrolling in a master’s program in strategic communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, she studied digital content creation, personal branding, and marketing, while also working in student programming and higher education.
Looking back, Jarvis says one of the biggest reasons she was successful in college was because she wasn’t afraid to ask for help, ask for opportunities, and ask for funding.
“I hit the ground running,” she said. “I was staying at office hours, asking about opportunities, constantly asking about funding and scholarships.”
That persistence paid off. She secured scholarships, leadership roles, conference opportunities, and even funding to help cover classes during COVID. She also studied abroad — first inspired by a high school trip to Costa Rica, and later traveling to Rome during graduate school.
Today, Jarvis is starting her career in higher education and student affairs, where she hopes to work in student programming, event planning, and communications — a career that combines her interests in sociology, storytelling, and digital media.
When she talks to current students, her advice is simple:
“If there’s something that you’re passionate about, if it’s not there, create that opportunity,” she said.
It’s a lesson she has followed for years — from joining a soccer team that helped her find her voice, to building a social media platform that helped launch her career, to pursuing graduate school and new opportunities across the country.
“I definitely had the leadership qualities,” she said. “It was just a matter of time and opportunity.”
