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"I always had this dream when I was younger that I wanted to be a missionary and that I wanted to just travel the world and do humanitarian work," she says. In high school, she went on several different missionary trips, including to Dayton, Ohio, where she traveled for three years in a row to help out at a local African refugee community. "Every single year we would go and we would add a different aspect to the community," she says. "One year we built a basketball court for the kids there who were coming from different countries around Africa. Another year, we went and we worked on a house t...

“My performance in this role and the way that I lead, will kind of set the precedent and set the tone.”

“My performance in this role and the way that I lead, will kind of set the precedent and set the tone.”

“My performance in this role and the way that I lead, will kind of set the precedent and set the tone.”

U.S. Naval Academy's first Black woman brigade commander hopes to 'open the door' for those behind her CNBC 2/3/2021 Courtney Connley © Provided by CNBC Midshipman First Class Sydney Barber is the U.S. Naval Academy's first Black female brigade commander. When Midshipman First Class Sydney Barber found out she was going to be the U.S. Naval Academy's first Black woman brigade commander, she called her dad, a 1991 graduate of the academy. "My dad is someone who always believed in me early on and so he will say that he wasn't surprised [by my position]," the 21-year-old mec...