
Dr. Andrea Lawrence
Dr. Andrea Lawrence is the first Black person to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Andrea Lawrence is the first Black person to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Dr. Asher Williams is currently the first Black Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University.
Mx. Erika Jefferson is the President and Founder of Black Women in Science and Engineering (BWISE).
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Maj. Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. was the first Black astronaut.
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Dr. May Edward Chinn was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree from Bellevue Hospital Medical College (now NYU Medical School).
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Dr. Lilia Ann Abron is the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemical engineering (1972).