The Collision: White Male Fragility Meets Black Female Resilience--Lessons Learned

What happens when excellence collides with a system never designed to include you?

For fourteen years, Dr. Clara Denise West documented that collision with engineering precision.

Five degrees. Twenty-seven years of federal service. First Black woman to complete a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Optics while working full-time at NASA. Expertise in radar target identification.

The credentials opened the door. They did not prevent what happened next.

The Collision...