Institute of Gender Studies

Claudette I. Humphrey Claudette I. Humphrey The first female Olympian from Guyana (then British Guiana) isClaudette Izel Humphrey (nee Masdammer). Born in March, 1936, she attended the St. Georges Anglican School and later the Tutorial High school where her athletic abilities were recognized by the school founders, the Castello Brothers. Claudette represented her country at […]

Yvonne Young Clark Yvonne Y. Clarke Say her name! Yvonne Young Clark! Yvonne Young Clark was an ASI fellow and the first woman to earn a degree in mechanical engineering at Howard University in Washington, D.C.and later the first African American woman to earn a master’s degree in engineering management from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. […]