Harvard's First Woman Of Color -- Absolutely Nothing To Do With The Bakken

Updates

May 30, 2012: Now she tells us she was the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey. I wonder if she co-invented the internet with Al?
May 25, 2012: The dots have been connected; link to the Boston Globe.  In the '90s, Harvard was coming under fire for lack of diversity. Warren was a twofer: not only was she female, she was a Cherokee Indian. Can't get much better than that.

Original Post

Link here.

"There are few women of color who hold important positions in the academy, Fortune 500 companies, or other prominent fields or industries," the piece says. "This is not inconsequential. Diversifying these arenas, in part by adding qualified women of color to their ranks, remains important for many reaons. For one, there are scant women of color as role models. In my three years at Stanford Law School, there were no professors who were women of color. Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995."

Photo here. 

I didn't read the wiki entry; it's possible these are two different people.

The "real" Elizabeth Warren says she is 1/32nd Cherokee Indian.

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