25-year-old, Tiffany Davis who won a full scholarship to study for her bachelor’s degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States had graduated with an Aerospace Engineering degree.
Tiffany went viral on social media platforms in 2016 when she shared her graduation photos with the hashtag #YesIAmARocketScientist. She is a native of Wahington D.C. in the United States.
She developed an interest in math and science at a young age according to GPC. Tiffany graduated from high school with a full scholarship to Georgia Institute of Technology where she majored in aerospace engineering and minored in French.
While growing up. Tiffany attended engineering-driven summer camps and read books on astrophysics and engineering. She also conducted her experiments at home, such as building a hovercraft out of a leaf blower and a plywood board.
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“When I was 11 I asked for a circuit board for Christmas because I thought it was cool that this board could play such a huge role in how something works,” she said.
While a student at Georgia Tech, Tiffany worked at Boeing’s Engineering Accelerated Hiring Initiative in 2014 which allowed her to hold several internships with the company, including positions as a structural analyst and product design intern that same year according to her LinkedIn page.
She was also involved in various extracurricular activities, such as the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the African American Student Union (AASU), and the Georgia Tech Student Ambassadors.
Tiffany also participated in several internships and co-ops at NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. She even got former President Barack Obama to visit the campus and talk about student affordability.
She introduced President Obama to a crowd of students when he visited where he spoke on affordable education. Tiffany mentioned that she wrote a letter to the president regarding college affordability.
She stated that he responded and told her he was working to ensure all Americans, “including future rocket scientists like you, can achieve their dreams without worrying about their loans,” President Obama said.
Tiffany is currently working in Washington D.C. as a spacecraft engineer in Boeing’s Mission Operations and Engineering group. She was nominated and selected as the 2018 Technology Rising Star for the Women of Color in STEM conference.
Rising Stars are young women, approximately 1 to 22 years in the workforce, who are helping to shape technology for the future. She is also pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science at the same Georgia Institute of Technology.
With her master’s degree, she will be focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for future space exploration missions. Tiffany is also a passionate advocate for encouraging other young women, especially Black women, to follow their dreams in STEM.
“I want more women and minorities to join this field, so I hope that sharing my story will make it easier for people that look like me in the future so that they can do it too,” she said.
She has spoken at various events and organizations, such as Girls Who Code, HowGirlsCode, Dream Talk Panel, Women of Color in STEM Conference, and BET Black Girls Rock Awards Show.
Tiffany created the AstroGirls Scholarship Fund to help send young girls to space camp. She believes that representation matters and that Black women can achieve anything they set their minds to.
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