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ABOUT ME
Meet Claire
Dr. Claire A. Nelson is a futurist, sustainability engineer, social entrepreneur and storyteller.
As the only Black woman in her engineering classes at the University at Buffalo and Purdue University, Dr. Nelson broke through barriers of gender and race to become the first woman engineer hired at the Inter-American Development Bank in 1981 and the first Jamaican woman to earn a Doctorate in an Engineering Discipline in 1989.
Dr. Nelson became a pioneer in transforming the dialogue in inequity for Black people in Latin America and the Caribbean American community. For her leadership, she was commended in the US Congressional Record and honored as a White House Champion of Change.
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