CHEA is proud to announce that Cell Press chose our fellow, Dr. Elle Lett, as the 2021 post-graduate winner of the Rising Black Scientists Awards. Dr. Lett was also featured as our December CHEA Spotlight. On winning this award, she says,

“Winning this award is of personal and political importance. Personally, it acknowledges the effort I have put into developing into a thought leader and innovative scientist capable of moving my field forward. Politically, it’s a statement of the importance of the type of science that I do—work that highlights the experiences and power of oppressed populations while developing strategies to mitigate the harms of systemic discrimination.”

Read her award-winning essay, Science as a Tool for Justice, where she discusses using science and scholarships to address inequitable systems of oppression.