Charles Brown, a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Dan Stamper-Kurn’s Ultracold Atomic Physics Group, was featured in Physics Today’s and Physics World’s #BlackinPhysics Week essay series. Charles organized the collection of essays featured on the site and co-authored an essay on Black representation in AI and quantum information science and engineering. The organizers behind #BlackinPhysics Week created this essay series to highlight important issues Black physicists face and to diversify the image of what a physicist looks like.