Just three months after a New Jersey politician reported her to the cops for killing spotted lanternflies, 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson was invited to hang her name on the walls of Yale University.
The university’s School of Public Health officially entered Bobbi’s collection of 27 lanternfly specimens — which she graciously donated to the school — into itsShe was also invited to affix a label bearing her name to one of the specimens during the Jan. 20 ceremony. Her display is already available for public viewing.
“We wanted to show her bravery and how inspiring she is, and we just want to make sure she continues to feel honored and loved by the Yale community,” Ijeoma Opara, an assistant professor at the schoolBobbi, a black girl, made national headlines last October after former councilman Gordon Lawshe, a white man, reported her as a “little black woman walking and spraying stuff on the sidewalks and trees.