Where are the Black geoscientists? Diversity call highlights eco-justice.
Sep 11, 2020
3 minutes
As a child, Sandra Boitumelo Phoma never considered becoming a scientist.
“When I saw scientists, I saw Einstein. I saw white people,” she says. “For me, it felt so far-fetched.”
This was Nelson Mandela’s South Africa, where Black women like her could now aspire to be an engineer or maybe a doctor. She could dream of being a lawyer or a teacher. But a scientist? “That still wasn’t for someone like me,” she says.
Today, however, Ms. Phoma is on the cusp of
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