Young, Gifted and Black: How Making the Most of an Opportunity Helped Land Me a Job on Wall Street.

“When the door of opportunity opened, I walked through it.” I remember when I first realized things were different for me. I grew up, like many others, in a low-income household in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I saw first-hand the barriers and roadblocks tied to opportunity. But when I was in eighth grade, a girl on my …