Jenelle Rouse made history in 2020 when she became the first Black deaf person to receive a doctoral degree in Canada.
She overcame her inadequacies, shattered a glass ceiling, and paved a path for others, especially girls with a dream similar to hers.
Rouse is an educator at a bilingual school for the deaf in Ontario and an advocate for the broader acquisition of sign language.
Before the achievement, Rouse had completed the Deaf and Hard Hearing Teacher Education Program at York University in Canada in 2008.
When Jenelle Rouse became the first Black deaf person to receive a doctoral degree in Canada, she smashed a glass ceiling and paved a path for others.
In 2022, she earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, inking her name in the country’s history books.
The milestone followed her Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics in Education from the University of Western Ontario in 2016.
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