US woman named Marijuana Pepsi earns her doctorate degree, refuses to change her name


The 46-year-old Marijuana Pepsi, who has long faced criticisms and jokes about her unusual name, secured her Ph.D. last month in higher education leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin after eight long years of studying, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

She interviewed Black students at her alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she got her bachelor’s degree about how their distinctly “Black” names may have affected their treatment by teachers and their academic achievement, and she heard the familiar stories of a teacher pausing on their name to begin questioning them in front of everyone else.

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