"Now don’t get me wrong, I knew mathematicians did more than teach. But personally, I had not done a lot of applied mathematical work. Nothing wrong with it, I just hadn’t. (My area of research was a branch of Combinatorics called Matroid Theory.) However, when I started looking I found all kinds of employment opportunities."
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Carla Cotwright-Williams
Carla Denise Cotwright-Williams (born November 6, 1973) is an American mathematician who works as a Technical Director and Data Scientist for the United States Department of Defense.[1] She was the second African-American woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Mississippi.
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