This article was originally published by the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Tonya Covington, an African-American woman who has worked at a variety of nonprofits in New Mexico for decades, recalls five or six times in her career when she trained white men or women that were hired for positions above her or would later bypass her on the career ladder.
She said sometimes those individuals, often younger, seemed to jump ahead of her mainly because they had advanced degrees — something that was far less important in the nonprofit world when Covington was new to the field.
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