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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

— Nkechi Agwu

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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.

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

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