I love you all from infinity to infinity and this is only just the beginning ❤🧡💛💚💙 My campaign centered our kids.

Yall, this running for office thing is hard af. The paperwork, the disclosures, the surveys, the financial components, literally ALL of it feels so complicated for a regular degular person like me. I say this because what Im learning is that this process was not created for you or I and is intentionally created to be a difficult process to exclude most of us who DONT have money, a high profile network, or a "name"...

When I was 14 I was put out of my American Govt class for calling the teacher a not-so-nice name (something I now cringe at). I was one of “those” kids. I was the kid who grew up in a 3 bedroom apartment with my 5 siblings and mom. I was the kid whose mom worked 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet. I was the kid who had free lunch and thrift clothes. I was the kid who saw drug addiction and domestic violence in my home. I was the kid who helped raise my younger siblings.

On this last day of Black History Month, I'm compelled to remind you that my former employer, @Google, hated everything about my blackness.. from their criticism of the way I spoke to the way I fiercely advocated for black students to have opportunities in tech. Google hated my audacity to demand they do better by Historically Black Colleges and Universities and they ::especially:: hated that I was unafraid to challenge their blatantly racist internal hiring practices.

As if my termination couldn’t get any worse… Google decided after firing me that the best way to send a message to the world that they value diversity was to BACK FILL MY ROLE WITH A WHITE WOMAN.

The optics of it all are shameful honey. With very limited time and energy, let me say this…To the HBCU Presidents who will meet with Google CEO, Sundar, tomorrow.. Let me give you some insight into what Google thinks about OUR kids…

I'm finna tell yall why @Google fired me- their MOST successful diversity recruiter in the history of their company- with the receipts to support that statement. Reading about what happened to @timnitGebru at Google is both triggering and yet super encouraging. While I don’t want to capitalize off of her moment, I do want to share my experience as a black queer woman at Google.