Dr. Valerie Taylor is the CEO and President of the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in IT (CMD-IT) and Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the U.S.
Mrs. Katherine Johnson was employed as a “computer” at NASA, the term given to women who performed mathematical calculations for NASA engineers.
Dr. Casonya Johnson is currently the Head of the Department of Biology at James Madison University.
Ms. Alice Ball developed the first successful treatment for leprosy.
Dr. Ruth Ella Moore was the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in a natural science in the U.S.
