Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a respected member of the Women Studies department and an Assistant Physics professor at the University of New Hampshire. She was brought up in El Sereno, a neighborhood of East Los Angeles and is a proud fan of the Dodgers. She loves to refer to herself as the 54th Black woman to get a doctoral degree from a physics department in the United States. A descendant of Ashkenazi Jewish and Afro Caribbean immigrants, she is a citizen of both Barbados and the United States.