Do I Mean It? Can I Defend It?

"I wanna normalize somebody who looks like me showing up as exactly who they are, being excellent at their work and making the best type of trouble," she says. "For black women who are incorporate, who have to deal with the troublemaking label and it dings them on their annual reports ... I'm hoping I exist in a way that allows their lives to start getting easier." She also wants more white men especially in leadership positions to start feeling convicted about the ways and unconscious bias that allowed them to put things like aggressive in someone's annual report.