Kate RichardsonUndergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow

Kate Richardson is a Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology major at Emory University on the Pre-Genetic Counseling Track.

Blending scientific research with feminist critique, her thesis, The Life of Marian Diamond: Biography as Contextualization for the Resurgence of Neurosexism Under the Trump Administration, investigates how historical exclusion of women in neuroscience has resurfaced in today’s political climate. Kate’s work not only tells the life story of Marian Diamond—pioneering neuroscientist and feminist—but also critically examines the act of biography itself as feminist intervention. By reconstructing Diamond’s legacy from diverse sources, Kate highlights how biographical storytelling can challenge dominant narratives and reveal systemic patterns of exclusion. Through this lens, she explores how neurosexism has reemerged, particularly in the dismantling of female-centric health research under an administration marked by DEI erasure and revisionist science policy. Her work reanchors women’s narratives in science and illuminates the enduring impact of feminist neuroscience.