Essence | Mareena Robinson Snowden Is The First Black Woman To Earn A Nuclear Engineering PhD From MIT Essence This past June, Mareena Robinson Snowden became the first Black woman to ever receive her Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She announced the milestone in an Instagram post: “No one can tell me God isn't. Mareena Robinson Snowden Becomes 1st Black Woman to Earn Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. from MIT Mareena Robinson Snowden Is The 1st Black Woman to Earn a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering From MIT |