Voices on Diversity: Overcoming Barriers to Pursuing a Career in Science

Looking back on a life of unacknowledged privilege and a call to action

“…Listen to the voices of our Black faculty and trainee colleagues, nationwide and at our own institutions, when they remind us that overt and aversive racism, microaggressions, and the long history of systemic racism shaped the current scientific environment in our fields, departments, and universities. The scientific press has provided many chances to do so this past year—make the time to read them (e.g., Dzirasa, 2020a ; McGill et al. , 2020 ).…”