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“From unfulfilled racial-justice pledges to unionizing nonprofits, the pressures on woman leaders like me aren’t letting up. Donors need to recognize that and invest in our physical and mental health.”

“Mobilizing multiple identities is a key strategy for what I term New Majority candidates. These candidates successfully deploy their ethnic identity through community outreach, personal story and mobilizing donors from the community, but also engage with mainstream media, likely voters from different constituency groups, and political parties.”

“I have seen firsthand how the United States can unroll a welcome mat or erect a spiked gate for immigrants. My own story includes encounters with both these sides of America.”

"To pretend that the targeting of Asian Americans is not a symptom of the same illness that results in Latinos being profiled by immigration authorities and Black people being hunted by police is to be complicit in the mythology of America as an inclusive country."

“Our white Founding Fathers designed a government that would work for them and their peers. And we have a lot of work to do to get to a government that looks like, and works for, Americans today.”

“...though I had chosen to slow down, I would sometimes panic about how being a less visible leader would affect my future finances and career opportunities.”

“Performing Whiteness denies who we are as women of color — hearing our names bungled, seeing our stories denied or whitewashed, hiding our truths from shame or fear — all of this eats away at our core.”