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Wendy Okolo Quotes

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Wendy Okolo is a Nigerian aerospace research engineer in the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center. She is the first Black woman to obtain a Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering from University of Texas at Arlington.

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I was that person that would ask companies – hey, can your company help with this or that?

I can’t even imagine how I would have struggled during the first year transitioning to being an aerospace engineering freshman at UT Arlington, but again arduous is relative.

Everybody just wants to know, what’s your story, how did you get to NASA? How did a 26-year-old black girl get a Ph.D. in something like aerospace engineering and get to work at NASA?

It was a lot of responsibility for sure. But it came with a lot of growth as well. Growth and independence of some sort.

So, when I got to grad school, it was a little different. My involvement with the Honors College was morphed. I was not really an Honors student which is more focused on undergrads.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wendy Okolo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.