UChicago isn't the only institution where very few black women graduate with PhDs in physics. The problem is nationwide.
When that wasn’t enough, Bester scoured the internet for stories of other Black women in physics. It was during one of these sessions that Bester came across Willetta Greene-Johnson. From time to time, Bester Googled her name, curious what she was up to. Eventually, she managed to get Greene-Johnson invited to speak on campus. When she finally met her, Bester was starstruck: “You mean so much to me,” she told Greene-Johnson.
Burned out and alone in the library on a Saturday night, Bryant was unable to remember the spark she had once felt for studying life among the stars. I swallowed my anger and excused myself to the women’s restroom, where I knew I’d be alone. There, I stared at my reflection, wondering what I had done to make him so audacious, and I said out loud the things I wished I had said to him.
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