Venera Bekteshi, PH.D.

With several master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in her professional pocket, the impressive Albanian native leaves her stamp of success, as a professor at a prestigious institution. Venera Bekteshi was just 16 years old when she immigrated, on her own, to Oklahoma from Mitrovica, Kosova—but it didn’t take her long to integrate into the new society and excel.