Olympic Athlete | Award-Winning Social Entrepreneur | Keynote Speaker Nzingha is a Brooklyn native and one of the most decorated athletes in USA fencing history as a 2x Olympian, World Champion and 4x Senior World Medalist. She became the first Black woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships when she claimed bronze in 2015. In July of 2018 she and her team captured Team USA’s first-ever World Championships gold medal for the USA Foil. She is the first American woman to win a foil Grand Prix and has ranked as high as fifth in the world. Nzingha is a graduate of New York City’s highly acclaimed Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University. Founder & CEO of award-winning The Prescod Institute for Sport, Teamwork and Education (PISTE), Nzingha has committed to expanding access to sport as a sports equity champion advocating for inclusive and high-quality sport education.