Essence Magazine:
By Jasmine Browley ·Updated June 2, 2023
Despite the odds Amie Fornah Sankoh persevered and made history in the process.
The Sierra Leone native recently graduated with a PhD from the University of Tennessee (UT) Knoxville’s Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology. If that wasn’t impressive enough, she is the first deaf Black woman to ever obtain the degree.
Sankoh lost her hearing at just three years old,
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