INTRODUCTION
How I Hit the Glass Ceiling and Bounced Back
In 2013, I hit the glass ceiling hard, and still to this day I have shards from it embedded deep beneath my skin.
The glass ceiling exists for many people rising to the top of their fields and companies, where we hit the limit of what opportunities are open to us because of our identity (gender, race, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and/or other historically marginalized identities). It’s glass, so we might not see it right away, and the people around us usually can’t see it either.
All my life I’ve worked to make the world a better place. I began my career as a documentary filmmaker. After several years, my work evolved to creating movements of change by combining storytelling ...
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