This Recent Grad Just Became The First Deaf Black Woman To Earn A Doctorate Degree In STEM

This Recent Grad Just Became The First Deaf Black Woman To Earn A Doctorate Degree In STEM

Essence Magazine:

By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 2, 2023

Despite the odds Amie Fornah Sankoh persevered and made history in the process.

The Sierra Leone native recently graduated with a PhD from the University of Tennessee (UT) Knoxville’s Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology. If

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