A 30-year-old woman named Amber Johnson has made history as the first African-American woman to earn a Doctorate degree in Computer Science at Purdue University, Indiana in the United States.
Amber Johnson made history by becoming the first-ever African-American woman to earn a doctorate degree in Computer Science at Purdue University, Indiana in the United States. United States.
She said she identified her love of computers early, receiving her first computer at just 4 years old. Amber said she learned to code early as well, using a Microsoft Disk Operating System (MDOS).
Growing up, she said she used to program her calculators and can even remember trying to fix her Nintendo 64 when it malfunctioned. “I’ve always been really into gadgets, figuring things out, taking things apart. I was self-taught,” she said.
Amber obtained her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from LeMoyne Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee. She proceeded to earn her master’s degree at Jackson State in Mississippi.
She said transitioning from an HBCU to Purdue University was a shift that Johnson had to learn to navigate. “Coming to Purdue, I had to learn to understand the community around me, learning to understand the community,” Amber told The Exponent.
”Black students are in a space that was not intentionally created for them but extended to them. It needs to be filled with mentors and peers,” she added.
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