First-Generation College Student to Impact-Driven Professor & Entrepreneur with Dr. Lakisha Simmons

Dr. Lakisha L. Simmons is a first-generation college student, a tenured professor of analytics, and a financially independent AchieveHer(TM). She is the first tenured African American in the Analytics department at Belmont University Massey College of Business. When she received tenure in 2017 she was one of only 51 female, African-American Information Systems business school professors in the U.S. She's been awarded the Rising Star Award by CABLE, 40 Under 40 by the Nashville Business Journa...