The Yale School of Public Health honored 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson in a ceremony last month and presented her with the title of 'donor scientist' for her efforts to curb the presence of spotted lantern flies in her community.
, Bobbi's older sister Hayden, 13, spoke at a city council meeting and said Lawshe's actions were"extremely offensive, traumatic, and scarring" for her little sister and family.
Shortly after the incident, Ijeoma Opara, an assistant professor of public health at Yale, invited Bobbi along with her family to meet other Black female scientists and tour the university. Opara also helped organize the Jan. 20 ceremony. "Yale doesn’t normally do anything like this … this is something unique to Bobbi," Opara said, according to a press release fromBobbi Wilson with her mother, Monique Joseph."You know, you hear about racism; you kind of experience it in your peripheral if you’re lucky in your life. It doesn’t come knocking on your door.
"The whole community, the science community, got together and said, ‘She’s one of us and we’re not going to let her lose her steam for STEM. We’re going to support the family, we’re going to support this girl,'" she
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