Engineering alum sees K-12 educators as the path to STEM diversity

Michelle Williams • January 20, 2023

Engineering alum sees K-12 educators as the path to STEM diversity.

Keonte Alexander, CECH ’22, is accustomed to mentoring and caring for others. He’s a father and a science and math teacher at William Howard Taft Elementary School in Cincinnati Public Schools. He became interested in serving youth while earning his associate degree at Cincinnati State and working at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Cincinnati.

Balancing parenting, studying, work and student-teaching was challenging and expensive.

“Paying for my Ohio Assessment Educator (OAE) exams was a barrier because I’m a father, and I have to take care of my kids,” he shares. “It was hard to even get by with the most simple things. A $100 for those exams was a lot.”

Keonte Alexander serves to make a more diverse inclusive STEM workforce and instructing field through students of the minority and in urban schools.

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