De'Broski R. Herbert

This lecture describes the journey of being a first-generation college student aspiring to become an internationally recognized scientist while overcoming deep issues in self-esteem. The journey from intense bullying in high school to the financial hardships and family trauma of the brutal murder of his father in college to graduate school, where racial discrimination was commonplace, all led to a self-doubting set of actions that had to be fought through in order to make it to becoming a tenured professor at a leading Ivy League university.