I was raised during the sixties and early seventies in a rural enclave of Northern Westchester - a token Asian and "minority" in my class. Somehow I won a full-ride debate scholarship to Northwestern and escaped to Evanston and then Chicago.
I joined New York City's professional workforce in the early 1980s, working all-nighters, jetting about the country, eventually rubbing elbows with corporate treasurers and CFOs - again as a token Asian and minority at my employer. I eventually formed my own firm (considerably more diverse), set aside enough to marry and raise a child, and lived i more...
