The 2022 Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Societies of America, Canada, and British Columbia kicked off on Sunday with a panel discussion featuring three Black women scientists sharing their career experiences and perspectives on pursuing equality in scientific professions. Joining virtually (not pictured) was Cassandra G. Extavour, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and Timken professor of organismic and evolutionary biology and of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, while on stage, left to right, are Swanne Gordon, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis; Maydianne CB Andrade, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at the University of Toronto, and Jessica Ware, Ph.D., associate curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, ESA president, and moderator for the panel discussion. (Photo by Scott Brammer Photography for the Entomological Society of America)