After learning in school about the pesky bugs, which ecologists have urged the public to squash on sight, Bobbi concocted a TikTok-inspired insect repellent composed of dish water, soap and apple cider vinegar.
, Bobbi's older sister Hayden, 13, spoke at a city council meeting and said Lawshe's actions were"extremely offensive, traumatic, and scarring" for her little sister and family.
Shortly after the incident, Ijeoma Opara, an assistant professor of public health at Yale, invited Bobbi along with her family to meet other Black female scientists and tour the university. Opara also helped organize the Jan. 20 ceremony. "Yale doesn’t normally do anything like this … this is something unique to Bobbi," Opara said, according to a press release fromBobbi Wilson with her mother, Monique Joseph.
"You know, you hear about racism; you kind of experience it in your peripheral if you’re lucky in your life. It doesn’t come knocking on your door. That morning when it happened, my world stopped," Monique Joseph, Bobbi’s mother, said, according to
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