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Only 1 percent of neuroscience faculty is Black. Kaela Singleton hopes to change that.

Whatever you do, don’t call the Black in Neuro founder “resilient.”

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Being a scientist is hard. Being a young scientist is harder. Academic institutions squeeze cheap labor out of graduate students and postdocs who are busy competing for publications and increasingly limited faculty jobs, sucking joy from once-enthusiastic trainees.

While people generally think of scientists as smart and competent, they’re rarely viewed as warm or caring. If you ask kids to tell you what a scientist looks like, many will describe a geeky, emotionally inept white man in a lab coat.