Andrea Lawrence (born October 6, 1946) is an American computer scientist and educator.
She graduated from Allen High School in 1964 and went on to enroll at Spelman College, before ultimately earning a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Purdue University in 1970.
[2] Lawrence has been a faculty member at Spelman College since 1985 and has taught courses on computer science, the theory of programming languages, and computer-human interactions.
[3] In 2018, Lawrence was credited by Juan E. Gilbert, the principal investigator for a National Science Foundation-funded program called "Broadening Participation in Computing", as the reason he finished his own Ph.D. Gilbert said that Lawrence, then chair of the computer science department at Spelman College, motivated him by introducing him to other black computer science doctoral students.
The award honors an individual with a long history of dedicated volunteer service to the computer science education community.