Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: (Record no. 11427)

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ISBN 9780062879301
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Classification number 338.768092 BUR
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Personal name Burns, Ursula M.
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Title Where You Are Is Not Who You Are:
Sub Title A Memoir.
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Place of publication New York,
Name of publisher Amistad Press,
Year of publication @2021.
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Number of Pages viii, 231p. ;
Other physical details ill.
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Summary, etc In this smart, no-nonsense book, part memoir and part cultural critique, Burns writes movingly about her journey from tenement housing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to the highest echelons of the corporate world. She credits her success to her poor single Panamanian mother, Olga Racquel Burns—a licensed child-care provider whose highest annual income was $4,400—who set no limits on what her children could achieve. Ursula recounts her own dedication to education and hard work, and how she took advantage of the opportunities and social programs created by the Civil Rights and Women’s movements to pursue engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York.<br/><br/>Burns writes about overcoming the barriers she faced, as well as the challenges and realities of the corporate world. Her classmates and colleagues—almost all white males—“couldn’t comprehend how a Black girl could be as smart, and in some cases, smarter than they were. They made a developed category for me. Unique. Amazing. Spectacular. That way they could accept me.” Her thirty-five-year career at Xerox was all about fixing things, from cutting millions to save the company from bankruptcy to a daring $6 billion acquisition to secure its future. Ursula also worked closely with President Barack Obama as a lead on his STEM initiative and Chair of his Export council, where she traveled with him on an official trade mission to Cuba, and became one of his greatest admirers.<br/><br/>
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Topical Term Biography
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam Biography 01/19/2026 338.768092 BUR UR010736 01/19/2026 Book