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'People don't expect a boss to look like me': Elaine Welteroth on leading Teen Vogue and challenging our biases

On her summer book tour, at the beginning of the audience Q&A portion, Elaine Welteroth would invite people to the front of the room to answer the following:

"My name is (blank). I am claiming space for (blank). No matter what (blank) may say."

It was a nod to her book title, "More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)," but it was also a way to get the crowd talking about challenges and naysayers they bump up against day after day.

"A lot

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