attributed a lot of what happened in college, the feeling of a lack of belonging, to something about me,” she said, “rather than thinking: This is systemic. These are wealthy institutions filled predominantly with extraordinarily wealthy people, and there is no escape.” When Rivera graduated from Yale in the spring of 2000, she followed a postcollege path common to many Ivy League grads: She got a job in management consulting, spending two years working for the Monitor Group, based in London.
