Rutgers Men’s Basketball Star Strives to Inspire Black Teens in STEM

Myles Johnson, who is studying engineering, launched BLKdev after a lifetime of not seeing others like him in the classroom.

While at home in California, as COVID-19 and social injustice shadowed the national landscape, Rutgers-New Brunswick men’s basketball player Myles Johnson was issued a challenge markedly different from those he was used to. This one wasn’t expressed by a coach on a court or from a professor in a lab, but rather from his mother, Gigi, at dinner.

Read the entire article about Myles in Rutgers Today

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