Maybe not for her. Seems her education is actually electrical engineering for some reason, and her Wikipedia page lists no record of AI research achievement beyond racial/sociological stuff. If she accepted that the USA/AI isn't filled with racism she'd presumably have to go back to signal processing.
FYI: education in EE is actually pretty common for people in ML. The math needed for control and signal processing has a lot of overlap with ML, and many EE labs do research in ML. I don't agree with her responses to LeCun, but I don't think her education should impact her credibility.
Edit: If you read her bio, she received her PhD in CS, and it looks like she's published multiple papers on things other than social issues in ML. What are you even talking about?
