” From there, her repertoire of film roles grew, and in 2008, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as the titular character’s mother in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Her breakthrough role came in 2001, when she starred in the film, “Baby Boy. Henson transferred to Howard University, where she studied theater while working two jobs to support herself and her newborn son.Īfter graduating from Howard in 1995, Henson moved to Los Angeles, where she took on an office job and landed small roles in various television series. After graduating high school, she pursued a degree in electrical engineering at North Carolina University, but dropped out after failing a math class. Henson’s path to an acting career was not always clear-cut. She was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in an apartment that she described as “one step up from the projects”. Henson is an Academy Award-nominated actress, producer, and mental health advocate. Rainey also served as a Foreign Affairs Fellow in the United States House of Representatives for Rep. Her international experience includes study abroad courses at the Université du Luxembourg Summer School and the IES Abroad Buenos Aires, as well as an internship at the Westminster Palace under Parliament member Helen Grant in London, England. Summer Enrichment Program (PPSEP), where she presented a paper on the preparation confidence of communities prone to hurricanes using a comparative analysis between Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Maria. While at Howard, Rainey participated in the Pre-Ph.D. She currently works as an associate analyst for Hillard Heintze, a Jensen Hughes Company, and will be going on to pursue graduate studies in cybersecurity with the support of the FAIT Fellowship. In April 2021, she was named Howard University’s first Foreign Affairs IT (FAIT) Fellow by the United States Department of State.
Taylor Rainey is a Howard University alumna with a bachelor’s degree in political science with a minor in Spanish.
in political science with minor in Spanish
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