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. Albert Manley was the 5th President of Spelman College and the first Black and first male president.
Mr. Leland Melvin is a NASA astronaut and researcher who has the distinct honor of being the only NFL draftee to have flown in space.
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.
Mr. George Washington Carver was born into slavery, and became known as one of the world’s most prominent agricultural scientists and inventors.
