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Kenya Herring was born and raised in the DMV metropolitan area. At an early age, she showed an affinity for technology that developed into an acuity for computer science and mathematics. Throughout her years growing up, her parents would enroll her in STEM summer camps that exposed young adults to technologies, such as computer programming and robotics. Being exposed to technology at an early age inspired Kenya to pursue a career in information technology. Additionally, the lack of minority characters playing the more techie-driven character inspired her to be the diversity that she wanted to see within the industry.

In December of 2019, Kenya graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Technology with a concentration in System Administration from Bowie State University. She pursued her degree with partial funding through scholarships with her largest amount coming from the popular database management company, Oracle.

Currently, Kenya works as an IT Specialist at an IT consulting firm in downtown Washington, D.C. Her current project entails administering and maintaining web systems in the AWS cloud for the D.C. Health Information Exchange.