Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom -- And Back Again Harkema Graci
Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom -- And Back Again Harkema Graci An identity that spans the globe.In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee…
Specifikacia Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom -- And Back Again Harkema Graci
Rising: From a Mud Hut to the Boardroom -- And Back Again Harkema Graci
An identity that spans the globe.In this astonishing memoir, Graci Harkema revisits her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in Grand Rapids, Michigan. But that afternoon, a visiting American missionary saw her sleeping in a doll's bed and heard a voice inside her say, "This is your daughter."Her childhood was spent wishing to be lighter and blonder, like her siblings and classmates. She traces her path to claiming and living her own story, becoming a successful consultant on diversity, equity and inclusion, racial justice, LGBTQ+ equality, and women in business.Born amid civil unrest in a mud hut in the Congo and weighing a mere three pounds, Harkema was left at an orphanage, where she was not expected to live another day.
Out of fear of standing out even more from her peers, Harkema kept her sexuality a secret, only coming out of the closet years