When Bailey Spaulding, JD’09, traded the mountains of Vermont for Vanderbilt’s academic landscape to study environmental law, her wildest dream of launching a craft brewery felt utterly distant.
Then she immersed herself in the collaborative Vanderbilt community, with people who love to nurture and challenge bold ideas.
While working toward her law degree, Spaulding experimented in perfecting her brewing skills—with fellow students as willing taste-testers. She wrote a business plan and studied the legal hurdles involved in launching a microbrewery.
Today, Spaulding not only has a degree from Vanderbilt Law School, she is the founder of one of Nashville’s premier craft beer breweries: Jackalope Brewing.
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