In the spring of 2006, Jamison Dorsey was featured on the cover of a magazine. In the photo, she’s about seven years old, wearing bright purple pants, a furry pink winter coat, and neon pink gloves. She has a twinkle in her eye and a big smile on her face, and she’s holding the hand of her mother, Coretta Jenerette, who is dressed in more muted tones. The two are standing in the courtyard of Branford College, in the heart of the Yale campus, and looking off into the distance. The magazine was “Yale Nursing Matters,” which featured Jenerette, then a postdoctoral fellow at Yale School of Nursing, for a story about training the next generation of nurse scientists. “Looking back at the magazine, I really understood the significance of what it meant to see my mom as a role model,” Dorsey says now. “And to see how she took this leap of faith as a first-gen student from a rural community trying something new.” Two decades later, Dorsey is having a full-circle moment as she prepares to...