Centuries of oppression persist throughout our societies, and that has reinforced the exclusion faced by women of color in the modern workforce. To move toward action, I turn to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s saying, “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” All the stories of the courageous women of color detailed in these pages capture acute racial trauma—not only because of the bias of their perpetrators, but because of the complicity and silence of their peers.
