PRINCETON – Princeton University, a prestigious Ivy League university in New Jersey, has named Caribbean Canadian Nicholas Johnson, son of a Bahamian father and Jamaican mother, the first black valedictorian in the school’s 274-year history.
“Johnson”Johnson, an operations research and financial engineering concentrator from Montreal,is valedictorian of the Class of 2020.
Johnson, whose mother is Dr. Anita Brown-Johnson and father Dr. Dexter Johnson, said he plans to spend this summer interning as a hybrid quantitative researcher and software developer at the D. E. Shaw Group before beginning doctoral studies in operations research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall.
