I Have Benefitted from Racism in the Workplace

Heather Nowlin
9 min readMar 2, 2019

I almost entitled this piece “I Suspect that I Have Benefitted from Racism in the Workplace.” But upon further reflection, I gotta say I’m sure.

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I have two stories that I’ve filed under the “suspicious” category for decades. They are from early on in my career and life, and although it’s difficult to say how or if they correlated to any success I may have had since, I can certainly…

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Heather Nowlin

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