By Jasmine Browley ·Updated March 23, 2022
Growing up, Velma Trayham, PhD couldn’t have fathomed she’d be making millions of dollars.
The Houston, Texas native was born into poverty and often saw her family and peers struggling to make ends meet. Through that early exposure to struggle, she vowed to use education as a way out, and up.
After graduating from Texas Southern University in 2008 with a degree in business,
