Where You Are Is Not Who You Are : A Memoir

ISBN: 9780062879301
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Publisher,Amistad
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Weight, 420 g
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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.

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