Brittany Kamai
US astronomer and activist
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Brittany Kamai's Degrees
- PhD Astronomy University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Physics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Brittany Lehua Kamai is an American astrophysicist and racial justice activist. Kamai is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the California Institute of Technology. She was the founder of #ShutDownSTEM, part of the Strike for Black Lives held on June 10, 2020. A native Hawaiian, Kamai grew up in Honolulu and graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She completed her Master of Arts from Fisk University and her PhD from Vanderbilt University. Kamai is only the second native Hawaiian to earn a doctorate in astrophysics and the third to earn a PhD in physics.
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