Nicholas Johnson
Cause & Community
Setting new trends
AUSTIN, TX
Nicholas Johnson was named Princeton University’s first Black valedictorian in the college’s 274-year history. The recent graduate spoke to his fellow classmates in a virtual commencement ceremony in May 2020, encouraging his peers to build communities, relationships & traditions to serve humanity and deliver value to the world.
Johnson, whose accomplishments at Princeton were praised by notable alumni Michelle Obama, has his horizons set high for the future. With his Bachelor’s of Engineering in Operations Research and Financial Engineering in hand, Johnson will intern in hybrid quantitative research and software engineering with the D. E. Shaw Group before enrolling in Ph.D. studies in operations research at MIT in the fall.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Princeton University
The Tau Beta Pi Association
D. E. Shaw Group
Google
MRS Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
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