Our story begins when I arrive or come to the conference room right before the meeting starts and sit down in a chair around the large conference table.
" Um, excuse me, " Alex is saying from a first-floor conference table, one hand full of confetti samples—do they want a metallic color palette or a more subdued navy and gold?
Now — I mean, there'd be no mistake, I'm not suggesting literally that executives huddle around a conference table with a big pile of Lego bricks — although I've done that, and that works too.
There had been so many times in my life when I'd found myself the only woman of color—or even the only woman, period—sitting at a conference table or attending a board meeting or mingling at one VIP gathering or another.