5 Good Things: A Chicago Teen Earns a Doctorate Degree
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🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Head to Netsuite.com |
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| 0:05.1 | Hey there, need a breather from the breaking news? |
| 0:08.3 | Then you're in the right place. |
| 0:09.7 | Each Saturday we focus on stories that remind us of the good stuff happening. |
| 0:15.0 | Like how a new discovery could bring us one step closer to answering an age-old mystery |
| 0:20.0 | about the pyramids in Giza, plus a historic spaceflight that was 60 years in the making. |
| 0:26.2 | I thought I really didn't need this in my life, |
| 0:29.4 | but now I need it in my life. |
| 0:32.0 | From CNN, I'm Christeboo Beau and this is five good things. |
| 0:35.0 | Today like many people her age Dorothy Jean Tillman is attending prom as her best friend's date, but she isn't a high school student. |
| 0:46.4 | She actually earned her doctorate degree before she could even vote. |
| 0:50.4 | By the age of 14, Dorothy already had an associate's degree, a bachelor's, and her master's. |
| 0:56.0 | And the Chicago native successfully defended her dissertation a few months ago when she was only 17 years old. |
| 1:02.0 | The youngest person at Arizona State University when she was only 17 years old. |
| 1:02.7 | The youngest person at Arizona State University to do so. |
| 1:06.0 | She spoke at the University's College of Health Solutions Convocation earlier this month. |
| 1:10.6 | Flashback to the beginning during a world changing pandemic. I turned to my mom and said, |
| 1:15.2 | I think I want to pursue a doctorate degree. And so of course my mom and grandmother looked at me like, |
| 1:20.4 | what in the world, little girl? At the time, she said she was also juggling the launch of a science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics camp |
| 1:27.8 | startup to inspire underserved kids in Chicago and abroad to pursue careers in these fields. So safe to say Dorothy was busy. |
| 1:35.6 | But I explained I wanted to positively impact young people as it pertains to their mental health. |
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