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Others have described me as nurturing, caring, fun. Also accessible, positive and helpful. Which ties into my need for constant reassurance. I feel like I have to make sure everyone is good at all times. Oftentimes skipping over myself.

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I have been doubted a lot, questioned and put down so I want to make sure I prove myself as worthy..that may not be the right word, but that’s what comes up.

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Growing up being excluded because of my race and class, experiencing structural racism from a young age, listening to Kwame Ture speak and a college trip to Ghana to learn the history culture and religions had a tremendous impact on how I see the world.

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My stance PERIOD on everything is centered on just doing what needs to be done - no excuses. So my equity stance starts there.

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Other Filipino/Asian people may view me as not "similar to them" in that I spent a lot of my youth suppressing my culture in order to not stand out in school. I'm in the process of unlearning this and embracing those parts of myself.

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I hope I can say that I am living up to the example set by my ancestors and that I've passed that mandate onto my sons and others whose lives I've touched, knowingly or unknowingly.

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I'm Blackety Black Black Black and you can't tell me NUTHIN' that would make me what to change the skin I'm in.

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I am young, gifted, and black. Born into a middle class family with high expectations, which in turn, gave me horrible anxiety. A mother of a growing young black man and two black young women.

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Black woman, cis gendered, middle class, 40 something, mother of four

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Coming from the Southeast DC that I am from and being born at the height of the crack epidemic - and experiencing that up close - made me street smart and I'm proud to carry that coupled with my book smarts. Both of those things I pull on daily.

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I am the youngest daughter of a single mother and mostly absent father who poured  all she could in me to live out my dreams.

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I think Black people have different perceptions of me than folks from other racial and ethnic groups.

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Cis-gender, able-bodied, Filipino-American woman born from Philippine-born parents who immigrated to the US for a better life for themselves and their family.

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I am a woman of contradiction.

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Being the "only" or "first" early career gave me proximity to power and access. I studied it up close. That study was formative because it taught me about how white privilege works at work.

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I am an African-American woman who was born in Washington, DC who is a wife and mother of 2 Black boys.

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I work in various spaces to deconstruct WSC that creates barriers for children, especially poor and BICOC (black and brown) students.

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I went to PWI for schooling and work in PWI/schools. I am comfortable in the skin I am in, and celebrate my Blackness.

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I am an African-American, cis-gender female. The daughter of an immigrant mother and a father who’s ancestors built this nation. I am a wife, a stepmom, a daughter, and sister. I am bilingual and traveled. I am my ancestors wildest dreams and I owe it to them to pay it forward.

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African-American female born to southern born parents who migrated to the north for opportunities.