Dear CEO, I’m Done Being Your Token Black Woman

Rebecca Stevens
4 min readJun 18, 2020

I worked for a large multinational company for many years. What attracted me to it was their mission for saving lives and the scores of minorities they had hired. From my very first interview, those colorful faces smiling up at me from a sea of glossy corporate brochures convinced me to join that company. I felt that I had finally made it. I was going to work for an organization that valued diversity. I was…

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Rebecca Stevens

I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.