FROM MAKERS Moment

Growing Up Poor

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Burns discussing growing up in a NYC housing project and the stereotypes that attach to residents.

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“I’m a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York,”

Ursula Burns told Fast Company in 2011.”Not a lot intimidates me.”

It’s a stance that has served Burns—and her Xerox Corporation colleagues and shareholders—well.

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.Click link below for interesting video:

http://www.makers.com/ursula-burns/moments/growing-poor?icid=maing-grid7|myaol|dl15|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D147281

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