American nuclear engineer
Mareena Katherine Robinson Snowden is the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education.
Snowden enrolled at Florida A&amp;M University as a business major. ;ref name="mit.edu/slice/alumna-phd" ; ;/ref ;
In Spring 2011, Snowden was graduated from Florida A&amp;M University as Mareena Robinson, with a B.S. Degree in Physics. ;ref name="famu/spaie/A4.4.10-Physics" ; ;/ref ;
In 2017, Snowden was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D., nuclear science and engineering, as Mareena K. Robinson-Snowden, ;ref name="blackhistory.mit/phds-2018" ; ;/ref ; 30 years old, becoming the first self-identified American black woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the MIT, walking across the commencement stage on 8 June 2018, after 11 years of post-secondary study. ;ref name="cnbc/2018/07/18/first-black-woman-phd-nuclear-mit" ; ;/ref ;
Career.
Snowden worked as a National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellow in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the US Department of Energy before serving as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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