# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aprille-ericsson-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:48:11.238Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aprille-ericsson-jackson"
name: "Aprille Ericsson-Jackson"
slug: "aprille-ericsson-jackson"
description: "Aprille Joy Ericsson is an American aerospace engineer who had served as the assistant secretary of defense for science and technology. Ericsson is the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Howard University and the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in engineering at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)."
tagline: "American mechanical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aprille_J._Ericsson%2C_Assistant_Secretary_of_Defense.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963-04-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.477358666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprille-ericsson-a7321b176/"
    handle:    "aprille-ericsson-a7321b176"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "اپریل ایرکسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "أبريل إريكسون جاكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ابريل اريكسون جاكسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprille_Ericsson"
    title: "Aprille Ericsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprille_Joy_Ericsson"
    title: "Aprille Joy Ericsson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aprille_Ericsson-Jackson"
    title: "Aprille Ericsson-Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aprille_Ericsson-Jackson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16195050"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump