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Nkechi Agwu Quotes

b. 1962

Nkechi Madonna Adeleine Agwu // (born October 8, 1962) is a mathematics teacher. Agwu is a naturalized American citizen, tenured faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York, and was a director of the college's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship.

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Women of African heritage comprise less than one percent of the women who make up 30 percent of students in Ph.D. math programs.

I know the importance of trying to get women and underrepresented minorities into mathematics.

I was the only female and the only Black person in my master’s in mathematics program at the University of Connecticut.

Once you’ve been a refugee of war—I grew up in refugee camps in Equatorial Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone—you can survive anything

Then at Syracuse University, I was the only Black person in the Ph.D. in mathematics education program.

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