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Q&A: Balancing top-tier science with activism – a conversation with Black in Neuro's Brielle Ferguson

Brielle Ferguson has excelled not only in top-tier science as a postdoc in the Huguenard lab at Wu Tsai Neuro, but also in the kind of activism and advocacy she hopes can improve the diversity and culture of the scientific community around her. In 2020, she helped found the organization Black in Neuro and worked with her co-organizers to host two years in a row of ....

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#BlackInNeuro: How a Hashtag Forged Community for Black Scientists


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Amid national outcry for racial justice last summer, neuroscience graduate student Angeline Dukes yearned for a sense of community among Black scholars in her field.
Following the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, Black scientists from other disciplines including astronomy, botany, geology, marine science, and ornithology created online movements to celebrate the work of their peers and bring attention to discrimination in STEM. Dukes thought it was time for the neuroscience community to do the same.
So in early July, Dukes, a fourth-year PhD student at the University of California Irvine who is Black, tweeted, Sooo when are we doing a #BlackInNeuro week? ....

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