The Shuri effect: A new generation of black ecologists?

Shuri is the Chief Scientist of Wakanda: an inventor, engineer, and technologist for the most advanced nation on earth. She is brilliant, an intellectual, young, female, black, whose fierceness and fashion style makes one adore the character she plays in the movie Black Panther. For many of us black ecologists, Shuri represents more than just a fictional character. She is one of us. But where are all the black ecologists? We are here building a new generation of black ecologists doing field work in far-flung places, running lab experiments, and solving differential equations to understand the natural world around us.