Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire

“I felt like it was necessary to be seen and to not be a hidden figure so to speak.”

“I felt like there was no room for mistakes, which was difficult because science – mistakes are actually part of the beauty of it. Not necessarily tons of mistakes, but you learn a lot from things that don’t necessarily always go right with experiments. But in this case, we only had the bandwidth to learn from things that were going to go right. Otherwise, you lost time and people died.”

“We talk about purpose a lot, whether it be in the church or in academic institutions ... I had to step back and just say, ‘Who else?’”