By Cherranda Smith May 4, 2021 Alena Maze, wife, vlogger, and mother of seven, recently made history after becoming the first Black person to earn a Ph.D in Survey Methodology. The YouTube star earned a master’s degree in Mathematics from Georgetown University before pursuing her doctorate from the University of Maryland, College Park. Maze used her passion for math and health as inspiration to study survey methodology. “What’s a Survey Methodologist? Well I’m a Survey Statistician, so specifically, I research the math behind surveys,” Maze wrote on Facebook. Maze also shared how her work has real-world implications for health outcomes.