CHANGE MAKER

“There’s a lot of transphobia and homophobia in science. There’s sexism, a lot of pervasive racism, and to change those things requires a constant, steady effort”

r Jessica L Ware is an evolutionary biologist, whose work seeks to reconstruct the past 400 million years or so of insect evolution, with a particular focus on dragonflies and damselflies. A curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and co-founder of Entomologists of Color and #BlackinEnto, she has spoken at events such as the inaugural March for Science – created to protest against the Trump administration. Previously featured on the podcast presented by star Jonathan Van Ness, Ware is the empowering juncture at which scientific excellence and queer activism meet.