Princeton announced the news via press release and said that Johnson and salutatorian Grace Sommers will participate in their virtual commencement on Sunday, May 31. The University will hold a belated in-person commencement ceremony for the Class of 2020 next spring in May 2021 pending the end of the coronavirus pandemic.

Johnson who hails from Montreal studied operations research and financial engineering and enjoyed several international internships and cultural immersion trips to Peru, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. As a rising senior, Johnson worked as a software engineer in machine learning at Google’s California headquarters.