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African American Scientists

Kimberly Bryant (b.1967)

Kimberly Bryant, Black Girls Code @ SXSW 2016

Ståle Grut / nrkbeta [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

  • Kimberly Bryant is an electrical engineer with a background working in biotechnology
  • Founder of Black Girls CODE, a organization dedicated to teaching programming concepts to school-age girls from under-represented communities.
  • Black Girls CODE  has a goal of training one million girls by 2040.
  • In 2013, Bryant Recognized as one of the 25 most influential African Americans in technology by Business Insider

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