Judge james graves biography

Update, 11 June  This post has been edited to clarify attributions.

I remember the first day I met a Black faculty member in evolutionary biology.

I had just finished my first year of graduate school and was attending the Workshop in Molecular Evolution at Woods Hole biological station. Dr. Scott Edwards, noted ornithologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, was one of our lecturers for the week.

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Let me tell you; I had never googled someone faster than when I realized he&#;d be presenting the lecture on phylogeography. Only a few years out from receiving my B.S. in Botany, I found myself thinking, &#;I could do birds, birds are cool!&#; Don&#;t get me wrong, I&#;ve had plenty of amazing mentors who helped foster my interest and practice of science, and by then had shaken off most of the new-grad-student-smell of indecision.

At that moment, though, I was struck