A program officer in the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education will provide the details of his career trajectory. This involves being born in a small Caribbean island nation, going to school in a predominantly white and male engineering institution in upstate New York, being a faculty member at a small liberal arts college in California and working for the federal government. His entire career path was traversed while navigating the world as an openly gay, Black man who is also very interested and actively involved in multiple efforts that combine equity and excellence in various arenas, such as LGBT rights, criminal justice and educational access.
