https://www.al.com/news/2022/07/im-proof-you-can-black-13-year-old-college-student-says-shes-headed-to-uab-medical-school.html "She’s been called the Black Bill Gates. Now, Alena Analeigh Wicker has become a real-life, Black Doogie Howser. The 13-year-old college junior has been accepted to UAB’s Heersink School of Medicine under its Burroughs Wellcome Scholars Early Assurance Program in May, the teen posted on social media."
"I’m creating a platform for every little girl of color that has a passion for STEM AND EVERY GIRL that was ever told she couldn’t. I’m proof you can!” I think that platform and its influence will probably stand as one of Alena's most valuable accomplishments, as time goes by. YAY! She's off-the-chart extraordinary - in all the best of ways.
