🌟 Interview: Professor and Dr. J Nic Fisk
Episode description
Welcome back! On this week’s episode, we had the incredible honor to speak with Professor and Dr. J. Nic Fisk. Tune in to listen as we speak with Professor Fisk on her incredible efforts in getting Yale’s first African-American Students their deserved degrees, and what it means to correct the wrongs of the past for a better future. Also explore with us the obstacles she faced as the President of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate, her opinions on the strong intersection of humanities and STEM, the education industry, and her upbringing whilst navigating her self-identity.
Professor Fisk is an Assistant Professor in Computational Biology and Discipline-Based Education Research at the University of Rhode Island, and a nascent Clinical Cancer Informatics and Data Science center member for Brown University. She also recently received her Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics from Yale University, where she also received the Annie Le Fellowship convocation, Yale’s BBS Diversity and Inclusion Collective (YBDIC) Award, worked to get the first African-American students at Yale their degrees posthumously, and was the and was the first transgender woman to assume the office of the President of the Graduate and Professional Student Senate.
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