So… I think I started this MBA adventure with the right class - Leadership and Teams. I’m a lucky person, as I was really concerned about not feeling like I fit in, ideologically, and yet my first professor is also the Dean of Equity and Inclusion for the business school. So I’m lucky to have someone at the outset saying “here are real reasons why that thing you care about is actually important!”

So, after years of hemming and hawing, I’m starting an MBA program. Me, your local “this version of capitalism is not working, but I also don’t know if any version ever can” friend. Also your “I don’t think business execs should become arts execs” friend. The one who leads an anti-racism study group. I admittedly struggle with the decision to align myself with the idea that “business skills are skills for everyone.”