Jada Carter at Stamford Beach in Connecticut tagging near-threatened horseshoe crabs.
June 28, 2021
By Walter Ryce
Jada Carter, who recently graduated cum laude from CSUMB with a degree in biology, embodies an impressive range of diversity in their personal life, academic path, and future career in science while reconciling it for themselves and others.
“Others try to create the illusion that a scientist can t be queer and black and a womxn all at the same time,” Carter said. “But I think harmony among my identities is innate. Though that societal pressure can infiltrate the psyche, I fight it off by surrounding myself with people who understand my experience and have had similar experiences.”