My family disowned me when I married a black man t…

the numbers were heading somewhere I had only ever modeled in spreadsheets.

I left my analyst job that month and joined Compliance Core full-time as CFO. It was the first time my name was on the company paperwork next to his. We were partners in everything.

We moved to a bigger house, a four-bedroom colonial in Lake Oswego, 15 minutes south of Portland,continue reading …