6 Changemakers Currently Making Black History
Christopher Rhodes -
Black History Month, the time set aside to recognize the contributions of Black Americans to the nation’s story and the challenges we have faced, comes at a challenging time this year. With efforts growing to suppress Black voting and civil rights and laws erasing Black stories from classrooms and public discussions, Black history and Black people are both under attack. While recognizing the past contributions of previous generations of Black Americans, it is equally important to highlight the people who are making Black history today. Here are six changemakers currently making Black history.
Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett created the COVID-19 vaccine.
Not many people can say they saved the world, but Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett has a strong claim to have done just that. As a researcher in the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Health since 2014, Corbett’s research on coronavirus and mRNA suddenly became relevant once the COVID-19 pandemic started. Corbett spearheaded the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine, which has now been administered over 7 billion times worldwide. She has received numerous honors for her work, including being named Federal Employee of the Year in 2021. Time magazine lauded her as one of its “heroes of the year.”
In June, Corbett joined the faculty of Harvard University as an assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Shutzer assistant professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her job at Harvard includes running the school’s new Coronaviruses & Other Relevant Emerging Infectious Diseases (CoreID) Lab. Corbett is also working to fight against vaccine hesitancy — or “vaccine inquisitiveness,” as she calls it — in the Black community.
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Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Friday, February 18th 2022 at 6:28PM
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