Cori Shearer

My name is Cori. I’m a transplant to San Francisco, I work at the intersection of education and technology building and consider myself a prototyping pro.

Our CEO and the rest of the leadership team stood in front of the entire company and we had an honest dialogue about what’s going on.

My mother and I are very different people, but we always made it work. This is the way I explain our relationship to people: If you’ve ever seen the Gilmore Girls, she and I are literally Rory and Lorelai Gilmore.

I kept saying, “Yes,” to things or to experimenting. And slowly but surely, things came together.

When you have a mixed identity, you’re trying to reconcile your own oppression as you understand your privilege as the oppressor.

I’m getting clear about who matters most and being really intentional about my time and attention