From Career Contessa authored by Ciera Graham:
“I’ve been trying to figure out this challenging dance of how to be Black but not “too Black” in predominantly white spaces my entire life.
I remember having a conversation with a trusted and beloved mentor of mine a few years ago when she told me, “Women have to work twice as hard as men to receive the same recognition. But Black women have to work ten times harder than both men and white women in order to simply be ‘seen’ in predominantly white spaces.”
At a very young age, Black women learn to be intimately connected to the struggles of their double identity of being both Black and a woman. Outside of growing up in a predominately ethnic minority neighborhood, I have been navigating predominately white work and educational spaces for a very long time.”
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