It can’t only God , the first Doctor in my family is going to be a Resident physician in America , my one and only Usmle couch, my mentor , my only sister, you are my biggest inspiration ! 🥹👏🏾👏🏾 #Match2024 #img #firstGenDoc

GOD DID! 🙏🏽 #FirstGenDoc

I'm proud to share my first #infographic about my #DSW #research focus, Addressing the Racial #Leadership Gap in the #Nonprofit Sector Please share. Contact me if interested in references. #FirstGenDoc #Diversity #Inclusion #Equity #Management #socialwork #changemakersofcolor

Happy #FirstGenDay from a proud first-generation college student, now four years into her Ph.D.! I’ve endured a great deal to get to where I am, and I know what the “statistics” say, but I’m here. We’re here! #FirstGenDoc

✨ I’M GOING TO BE AN 𝔸ℕ𝔼𝕊𝕋ℍ𝔼𝕊𝕀𝕆𝕃𝕆𝔾𝕀𝕊𝕋 ✨ I am excited to announce that I will be training at UMASS Chan-Baystate! This process has been a testament to never letting anyone or anything stand in the way of your dreams 🤍 🙏🏾 #PropofolDoll 💉 #Match2024 #FirstGenDoc

When your doctoral capstone has a copyright! #DrCherry #DSW #socialwork #socialworkers #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #firstgen #FirstGenDocs #firstgendoc #phdchat

Today I cleaned out my office, bittersweet. @WUSTL we go back 16 years. Grew up professionally here & learned so much. Grateful for the highs & lows. I’m prepared to enter this next chapter & leave SW & higher ed better than I found it! #firstgendoc

I am ecstatic to announce that I’ve been selected as an awardee of the Ford Foundation 2023 Dissertation Fellowship! I am humbled to be selected during such a competitive year, and grateful for my village for their support during this process! #JourneytoDrWallerBey #FirstGenDoc

It's Graduation Day! Congratulations @uscsocialwork #DSW Cohort 6!!! We did it! #USCGrad #FightOn #SocialWork #Classof2020 #2020Trojan #Leadership #firstgen #firstgendoc

👋🏾 I’m Aya, a proud Detroiter, and #FirstGenDoc! I’m a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at #UMich studying how Black undergrads confront, negotiate, and make meaning of expectations to narrate trauma in college personal statements. #socAF #JourneytoDrWallerBey #BlackinSOC 💛

Still in disbelief! It's official, I'm matched! Now I need to figure out what kind of physician I'll be and where I’ll be on Friday! Fingers crossed for combined EM/IM! 🫣😩💕✨ #Match2024 #MedTwitter #FirstGenDoc #BlackMedTwitter

Collecting degrees like infinity stones! 🤓Next stop—PhD! #JourneytoDrWallerBey #FirstGenDoc #PhDLoading #GoBlue 〽️

Got my masters 3 years ago and this was my graduation shoot #co2016 #trynagrad #blackngradschool #firstgendocs #firstgendoc #newblacksociologists #newblacksociologist

So, I ordered my doctoral graduation regalia 😮👩🏾‍🎓 #FirstGenDocs #firstgendoc #FightOn #USC #SocialWorkersLead #DSW

Today I am officially an Assistant Professor on the tenure track at an R1! Some days it’s hard to believe this is my life. Wait until you hear the whole story!! Life is but a dream 💕 @BlackWomenPhDs #firstgendoc #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #BlackintheIvory

Dr. Rhea Eubanks, M.D. has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? #medtwitter #obgyn #firstgendoc

This week has been overwhelming and exhausting, but I finally have a dissertation committee! One step closer to Dr. Waller-Bey! 〽️#JourneytoDrWallerBey #PhDLoading #FirstGenDoc #SocAF 💙💛

🎉IT’S OFFICIAL🎉 This Fall I will be joining the wonderful faculty in English @UHouston as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Black Studies. Shoutout to my community for all of their support getting me to this point, We’re goin to Houston ya’ll! @uhenglishdept #firstgendoc

Yesterday I defended my dissertation prospectus and passed! Grateful for my committee and proud of the progress I’ve made on this project and what’s to come. But, now, I celebrate and rest! @UMSociology 〽️ #JourneytoDrWallerBey #FirstGenDoc #PhDLoading #AcademicChatter #socAF