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Joanne Berger-Sweeney
4 quotes
“I can admit now, in retrospect, that when you’re a Black female and you’re the only one in a particular situation, when something happens, you don’t know whether to view it through a lens of racism or not. You can’t tell because there aren’t other people who look like you. You don’t know if what is happening to you is because of your race or not.”
Joanne Berger-Sweeney (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mother was executive director of the Los Angeles Girl Scout Council. She was a leader, she knew how to interact with people, and she believed deeply in higher education. She would wake me up every morning and say, ‘You can be anything you want to be.’ If you grow up with that kind of confidence, it has a profound influence on the rest of your life.”
Joanne Berger-Sweeney (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have heard other women and people of color say that we feel like we have to work harder to prove that we know what we’re talking about. I got to where I am because I worked harder, I dug deeper, and I learned how to bring more people into the conversation and to see my point of view.”
Joanne Berger-Sweeney (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do hope they recognize that I care deeply about Trinity and trying to make it a stronger institution, that fundamentally I want to leave the place better than it was when I came. It isn’t about me; it is about a better Trinity and my hopes for higher education being better and stronger for the country.”
Joanne Berger-Sweeney (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source