Before she was an adjunct professor at Malcolm X College and collections associate at the Field Museum in Chicago, Angela was a little girl who was raised mostly by her grandmother, Sharon Wright.
As a baby, Lynika and her mother, Angela Strozier moved to Chicago.
At the age of 8, she was diagnosed with a learning disability that could have left her in the failings of Chicago’s public school system in their Special Education program.
Focused and determined to have a career in the sciences, she went on to obtain her master’s in biology from Loyola University in 2018 and simultaneously a master’s in science education from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Her first job after receiving the dual master was managing the Science Lab and Bio Art Lab at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
