“This was a for-profit event,” she said with exasperation. “But when I told them my speaking fee, they went into shock. ‘What fee?’ they said. ‘We can’t pay you a fee.’ I told them I couldn’t do it for nothing. It would go back to everything that I’m working to change. It’s not right to ask women to have economic empowerment and not practice it themselves. “I have to have my knowledge valued,”
