“It is very empowering and I hope the achievement can serve as an inspiration and motivation for black students.”
Nicholas Johnson is officially the private Ivy League’s research university’s first black valedictorian in their 274-year-old history.Nicholas Johnson is this year’s Princeton University valedictorian and he’s also making history at the same time.
According to Princeton & Slavery Project, this includes nine previous Princeton University presidents having owned slaves at some point in their lives. Nicholas Johnson, an operations research and financial engineering student from Montreal, Canada, has made history as Princeton University's first Black valedictorian.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.
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