"We were not taught to be inferior, so we didn't feel inferior to nobody. We were just as bold as brass." She asked, "Alfreda, why is your hand clean on this side and dirty on the other? That's not dirt.. and if you want to know why its a different color, you have to ask God, cause that's the way he made me." |
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Tyese is from West Chester, PA & she has lived in NYC for the past 20 years. She is clinical director of the RiseBoro Youth Center, in Brooklyn & supervises social workers who provide a myriad of social services to 2,500 youth annually. Tyese is the founder of Sister SAGE, a girls’ empowerment program that has provided over 300 girls of color with a safe space to experience intensive personal development through service, sisterhood, self-exploration & cultural empowerment since 2002. Tyese is a 3rd year social welfare PhD student. She loves to travel & spend time with her family.
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