14 African American Game Changers That Started as Rhodes Scholars
Cory Booker
The popular mayor of Newark not only has an impressive political resume, but he has an even more impressive academic history. After graduating from Stanford University with a bachelor’s in political science and a master’s degree in sociology, Booker earned a bachelor’s in modern history at Oxford in 1994 as a Rhodes Scholar. He continued his education at Yale Law school and graduated with a degree in 1997. All that preparation paid off. The next year, he became Newark city councilman and was eventually elected mayor in 2006.