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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA; COURTESY OF SUBJECT; JEMAL COUNTESS/GETTY IMAGES FOR<br />
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL; COURTESY OF ORA LEE SMITH CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION.<br />
Kimberly Bryant<br />
Technologist<br />
When Bryant launched Black<br />
Girls Code in 2011, little did she<br />
know that her movement would<br />
go global. The organization’s objective<br />
istwofold:toempowergirls ages7to 17to<br />
explore the world of tech and to let<br />
the world know that, well, “Black girls<br />
code too.” Bryant aims to train<br />
1 million girls by 2040.<br />
We need to<br />
disrupt our own<br />
negative experiences<br />
that we had in school<br />
around mathematics.… We<br />
need to tell our girls that they<br />
can do math.<br />
—NICOLE M. JOSEPH<br />
Candice<br />
Bridge<br />
Chemist<br />
In 2016 Bridge secured<br />
a $324,000 grant from the<br />
National Institute of Justice in an<br />
effort to further improve techniques for investigating<br />
rape. The chem superstar is one<br />
of the first people to earn a forensic Ph.D.<br />
in the United States. She’s also the first<br />
Black woman to teach chemistry<br />
at both Howard<br />
and the University of<br />
Central Florida.<br />
Hadiyah-<br />
Nicole Green<br />
Physicist<br />
After Green lost her aunt and<br />
uncle to cancer when she was young,<br />
fighting the disease became her life’s<br />
work. In 2015 she was awarded a $1.1 million<br />
grant to develop a cancer treatment using lasers<br />
and nanoparticles. It’s said to eliminate<br />
the devastating side effects associated<br />
with such cancer treatments<br />
as radiation and<br />
chemotherapy.<br />
University<br />
Treena<br />
Livingston<br />
Arinzeh<br />
Biomedical Engineer<br />
Arinzeh made her foray into<br />
science and medicine having been<br />
encouraged by a high school teacher to<br />
explore the subjects. She holds a Ph.D. in bioengineering<br />
from the University of Pennsylvania and has<br />
been lauded for her pioneering endeavors in stem<br />
cellresearch.In2003shesuccessfullydemonstrated<br />
how donor stem cells could be transplanted<br />
from one cell to another. Arinzeh is a professor<br />
of biomedical engineering at the<br />
New Jersey Institute of Technology.<br />
Jedidah C.<br />
Isler<br />
Astrophysicist<br />
While most of us are caught<br />
up in mundane daily activities,<br />
Isler is studying blazars—hyperactive<br />
black holes that live at the center of most<br />
galaxies. When she’s not observing the universe,<br />
she’s giving inspirational TED Talks and—through<br />
her organization, #VanguardSTEM—advocating<br />
to make STEM more accessible for<br />
traditionally marginalized folks. »
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