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05/31/2018
Q. As a woman of color, what were the challenges you had to overcome to get to where you are now?
A. When you are a black woman working in the financial industry, you are often in meetings or events in which you are the only black woman in the room. This isn’t something new for me, it’s been that way since I was a kid. The biggest challenge for me is that I often feel the pressure to represent my entire race when in these situations. Any mistake I make ends up reflecting poorly on other black women in the same space. The pressure to be the most successful, the most articulate, the most experienced can be exhausting.
Dr. Nekessa Remy: ‘I often feel the pressure to represent my race’ Having always lived within a like-minded, like-looking community, discourse about race and color rarely made it to my everyday conversations. But then things changed when I moved to Toronto a year …
05/29/2018
Full story: http://fivequestionseries.com/2018/04/24/christine-faulhaber-making-the-right-impression/
05/26/2018
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