Rochelle Williams: Potential
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2016
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As a PhD student, Rochelle Williams faces barriers to a career in engineering. Rochelle Williams is a Louisiana girl, Spelman woman, and lover of all things football. No stranger to implicit and institutional biases, she is an advocate for women of color in STEM and the relevancy of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. She has a B.S. in physics from Spelman College and both her M.Engr. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. in Science and Mathematics Education from Southern University and A&M College.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | I felt... |
| 0:34.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:46.9 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:51.8 | I'm Ben Lilly. |
| 0:52.4 | And welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:54.0 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:57.0 | This week's stories from Rochelle Williams. |
| 0:59.1 | It was recorded in March 2016 at the Koshlin Museum as part of a collaboration with the Merzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship. I think you're in the wrong class. |
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