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I was lucky enough to be sponsored to be part of a book series, called Let Them Finish, Stories from the Trenches, and it makes you realize how powerful each of our stories are. It’s not just someone speaking for you, but your own voice, your own experience, and a collaboration through similarities that bring bias and progress to light. I’d already wanted to have a chapter surrounding the same in my own book. As I’ve been known to share, I receive between 10 and 30 emails per week from the community looking for guidance and support and sometimes to simply vent. It’s therapeutic to share one’s challenges, as well as it bonds us, especially when we realize that we’re not alone.
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Pot’Vin-Gorman, K. (2019). Stories from the Trenches. In: Crushing the IT Gender Bias. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4415-9_7
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