My name is DeGrafth Palmore. I am from Akron, Ohio and I went to the University of Akron for high school and undergrad as I graduated in 2018 with a B.S. in electrical engineering. During my time in undergrad, I was on the board for several diversity student lead groups including NSBE. I also started my own organization called BOSS (Black Organization for Stem Students) which set a focus on gathering college-level STEM students to interact with younger students (elementary to high school) on a weekly to bi-weekly basis. The program involved not only introducing the younger scholars to most types of STEM fields through interactive learning such as dissecting fish, bridge and rollercoasting building, and electromagnetic experiments, but also having an emphasis on learning about diverse areas of history and, lastly, leadership development. I ended my undergraduate career with numerous awards, one of which includes the Top Ten Senior Award, which is the highest undergrad honor at the university.

In 2018 I started my Ph.D. program at The Ohio State University (tOSU) as a student in the Electroscience Lab. Since then, I have had two conference papers and currently working on two journal papers. I played Defensive Back for tOSU Club Football for two seasons where we went to the championship twice and won once. While working on the final stages of my Ph.D., I work as a signal processing engineer at Leidos.