As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson faces consideration to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, I talk with Deborah Archer, the first Black woman to lead the ACLU, to hear the lessons she's learned in the face of the challenging headwinds of racism and prejudice.
or to be lauded for being bold than just about any other leader.
“The struggle is always feeling like an outsider, [like I] didn’t earn the opportunities,” she says. “[I often feel] outside of the circle of belonging.” She is candid in sharing that she works hard to reject “internalized incompetence” and sees this for what it is: “blatant double standards.” We’re both grateful to younger generations for putting the issue of balance in a new light, in ways that our generation wasn’t able to, and perhaps didn’t have the privilege to. “My students remind me that ‘rest is revolutionary’…I struggle with that because I have such urgency and so little time.”
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