Odette Harris

"Without hope, my life, my path, my journey, my accomplishments would not even exist,"

"I think it’s important to focus on what people have to achieve to be in the roles that they’re in. Being a professor at Stanford is a journey, and there have only been two other women in the whole of the neurosciences that have received that distinction — and none of them were Black. So it’s an arduous journey."

"I'm an incredibly optimistic person. Yes, I'm very hopeful. I believe that hope has to be coupled with opportunity. We can't just rest on hope. We can't just say, 'This is getting better. Things are getting better.'"

"When you’re assigned something that you feel is a dead end, that is really going to take time away from your goal of being promoted,” Harris said. ”[Adler] taught me to say ‘no’ in a way that is effective."