The higher up we get, the more apologies we are expected to make for our power. It can feel demoralizing, exhausting, and unfair. At times, your very existence and survival in these spaces can feel like an impossibility. But the tactics used to keep us small are nothing new. For generations, women—Black women especially—have been overworked and underpaid, overlooked and underestimated. And, to paraphrase the great Maya Angelou, still, like air, we rise.
