While the primary goal of this website is to highlight the life and scientific contributions of a marginalized biologist, we want to begin by acknowledging the thousands of biologists whose works were never recorded due to marginalization. These scientists, whether for their gender, race, background, socioeconomic status, or other factors, may never have been allotted the education, funding, or opportunity to contribute to the scientific community. Some never got to enter the laboratory at all, while others were simply erased from the records of science, their contributions attached to the work of other researchers. Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens provides a brilliant example of a scientist whose combined efforts and privilege allowed her to overcome much of her marginalization and contribute to the body of science in the early twentieth century, and we hope you will see this story as both one of overcoming and as a stark reminder of how much work there is still to be done to ensure equal opportunity for all who wish to participate in the scientific community.