Kimberly McClelland

Kimberly McClelland

Kimberly Itaska McClelland (born June 28, 1980) is an chess player and alumnus of Stanford University and the Columbia University School of Public Health. In April 1993 at the age of 12, she won the Reserve section of the National High School Championship, becoming the first African-American woman to win a national chess championship. [http://www.nystar.com/chesscenter/hsstory.htm] During her chess career, she was a contemporary of future U.S. Women's Chess Champions Jennifer Shahade and Irina Krush, and was captain of the 1997 New Jersey High School Chess Championship Team. She went on to graduate from Teaneck High School in 1998, Stanford in 2002, and receive her Master of Public Health from Columbia in 2008.

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