Mary M. Atwater is an inaugural AERA Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, the Chair of the NARST CADASE RIG, and a NARST past president. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Her research focuses on socio-cultural-historical factors that influence science education. She has been the PI or co-PI of funded grants, published articles and book chapters, edited books, co-authored K-8 science program, and edited an international handbook.Brittany A. Garvin is an assistant professor in the School of Education at Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA. Her research addresses issues of race, culture, access, and educational opportunity in science education for minoritized student populations. Brittany is a member of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching and 2023 AAAS Fellow.

• Navigating to a science education researcher through a scientist and from the fly on the wall.- My journey as a garden sowing planting and growing in science education.- Drowning out the background noise.- Right where i belong fighting for the space in science that everyone else is given without question.- Finding a home in science education chronicle of my crossroads between the zambian sociocultural perspectives and formal science education.- A home of steel and velvet an african professors insights for the successful navigation of the us academic landscape.- The community is my laboratory leveraging my faith walk to reconceptualize service as scholarship in the academy.- Fitting in a black womans perception.- At home in the interstices.- The 3 cs to my success in science education connection communication and community.- My journey as an african american woman at a predominately white institution pwi.- Found a home freedom scie cycling.