Nicholas Johnson is this year’s Princeton University valedictorian and he’s also making history at the same time. Johnson told ABC News that he was “really surprised” to learn about the achievement, which he first discovered while being interviewed for a podcast for the university based in Princeton
Nicholas Johnson is this year’s Princeton University valedictorian and he’s also making history at the same time.
He added that the achievement is especially significant “particularly because of Princeton’s past historical ties to the institution of slavery.” Johnson, a Montreal, Canada, native and operations research and financial engineering student, is a former software engineer at Google’s California headquarters who is passionate about advocating for diversity in STEM.Johnson is a graduate of Selwyn House School and attended Marianopolis College, both of which are located in Westmount, Quebec. He is the youngest son of a mother who derives from the Bahamas and father from Jamaica.
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