Sir David Adjaye

Adjaye was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honors for services to architecture.

Adut Akech

Adut Akech was Melbourne Spring Fashion Week’s ambassador for 2019.

Garret Augustus Morgan

Garrett Morgan invented beauty products, the gas mask, and the traffic signal.

Louis W. Roberts

Louis W. Roberts specialized in the study of microwaves and applied them to aircraft and spacecraft technology.

Joy Adowaa Buolamwini

She helped develop an Android-based assessment system for Ethiopia to aid in eradication of trachoma worldwide.

Ginger Howard

Howard was the first African-American to earn a spot in the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team.

Jonathan D. Farley

Guyanese-Jamaican Jonathan D. Farley is an associate professor at Morgan State University.  In 2005 Seed Magazine named Dr. Farley one of “15 people who have shaped the global conversation about science in 2005.”

Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson

African-American Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is a mathematician who calculated orbital mechanics as a NASA employee.

Prince Rogers Nelson

Prince was a music icon who could play 12 different instruments WELL.

Tristan Walker

African-American Tristan Walker was named the USA Today Person of the Year in 2014.