Ayana Holloway Arce
Ayana Holloway Arce is an American physicist and professor of physics at Duke University. She works on particle physics, using data from the Large Hadron Collider to understand phenomena beyond the Standard Model.
Quotes
[edit]- Since I started working in high energy physics it certainly hasn't been lonely and there haven't been a lack of female role models.
- Black women are a different story. But there were minority women working at the Fermilab experiments whom I was very happy to see. And at the ATLAS experiment there are a noticeable fraction of African descent. So I think things are improving because, historically, all of the icons in our field have been white men.
- I didn’t know what my life would look like as a black postdoc or faculty member.
- I looked to the women such as my mother who had had academic careers, and tried to think about how I could shape my life to look something like that, and I realized that it could be something I could make work.
