Trachette Jackson Research Paper

What would you consider to be the desired line work for Africans and African Americans? Does it require extensive education? I believe that the black youth fail to recognize the contributions Africans and African Americans have given to the fields many scholars study today. Unfortunately, this causes them to overlook a future in these fields. Every black mathematician does their own part in showing that a higher education for both African and African Americans is possible with hard work and determination. However, the specific scholar that has opened my eyes to African and African American contributions is none other than the black mathematician Trachette Jackson.
Trachette Levon Jackson was born on July 24, 1972, in Monroe Louisiana. She has been an excellent student since high school. As a matter of fact, she spent her summers during high school at a math-science honors program hosted by Arizona State University and graduated in the top twenty of her class. After her graduation she attended Arizona State University. Her goal was to major in engineering at first, but a conversation with a professor in Arizona State University’s math department persuaded her to major in mathematics. The …show more content…
She tells a story within the aforementioned interview about how around the math department she saw flyers of a guest speaker, Jim Murray, claiming that he “was going to tell us how the leopards got their spots, using math”. Jackson said that she wasn’t amused at the claim at all; she didn’t believe that what he said was possible. However, when Jackson sat down for Murray’s talk, she became sure of what field she would strive to study. She went on to receive her B.S. degree in mathematics from Arizona State University in 1994. Then Jackson earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington in 1996 and 1998. Her Ph.D. thesis was entitled “Mathematical Models in Two-Step Cancer