Editor’s note: “My Story” is where business executives share their personal and professional backgrounds and journeys that have made them who they are, in their own candid words, from the challenges of confronting stereotypes to the glory in overcoming them. Amid calls for racial justice, we can only make real change with greater awareness and understanding — and the ability to learn from each other’s experiences.
If there is a theme in my life, one that explains how I have developed as a leader, it is that along the way, certain individuals and groups of people have “had my back.” And without their support and encouragement, I don’t think that I could have been as successful.
The first of those was my mother. I am the youngest of five children my mother raised on her own. I grew up in a small town named Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was an underserved community, and I was the first in my family to go to college and earn a degree. I attended Howard University in D.C.,…
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