Geological sciences are perhaps the least diverse of all the sciences. Recently, gender equity has approached parity within the student population, but professionally, people of color and differently abled people are still underrepresented in the geosciences. This book presents the autobiographies of eight professional earth scientists from underrepresented groups. They relate the joys and horrors; the help and the harm; and the care, hatred, and indifference they saw in their quests for earth science careers. All became successful, most often despite their circumstances, finding the courage to resist and even fight through the prejudice, bias, ignorance, and indifference that still characterize our society and our profession today. Their stories are unique, yet the reader will see many common threads that describe how these individuals persevered in their dreams to become professional earth scientists.