Glamour. “Most people whose families come from backgrounds like mine are not able to make these moves.” She had a teacher who helped her see a university in her future, she said, and a knack for academics.
But she was, she argues, simply lucky. “We have this problem in our society where we assume that everybody’s successes are based on the inputs that they put in,” she says. “Talent is distributed equally in our population, but opportunities aren’t.”She hopes to use her success to widen the path for people who aren’t born into opportunity.
That starts with being honest about her own situation. Sure, she’s the CEO of a company that helps fill Instagram with pictures of white sand beaches, rainforest zip-lines, and waterfalls.
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