Our story begins when I arrive or come to the conference room right before the meeting starts and sit down in a chair around the large conference table.
Now — I mean, there'd be no mistake, I'm not suggesting literally that executives huddle around a conference table with a big pile of Lego bricks — although I've done that, and that works too.
" Um, excuse me, " Alex is saying from a first-floor conference table, one hand full of confetti samples—do they want a metallic color palette or a more subdued navy and gold?
There had been so many times in my life when I'd found myself the only woman of color—or even the only woman, period—sitting at a conference table or attending a board meeting or mingling at one VIP gathering or another.