Only One In The Room Kimberley Baker Guillemet Is The Only Brown, Round, Girl with OCD Who Became a Judge Episode 157
What if you were brown, round, and gifted, and we’re also the first-ever scholarship recipient to use a tuition payment plan at your posh all-girls private school in Hancock Park?
Author and Criminal Court judge, Kimberley Baker Guillemet, wrote about her experience at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles, where she was often one the few Black faces in the room.
So what would you do if you were embarrassed when your grandfather, “Papa” dropped you off at school in an old Plymouth? Would you decide you had to be like your peers to be popular? Or would you listen to his words of wisdom, when he said, “Remember who you are?”
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