Mareena Robinson Snowden
Mareena Robinson Snowden is the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Education. Snowden attended Florida A&M University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she earned a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering. Career. Snowden worked as a National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellow in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the US Department of Energy before serving as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.