ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TIFFANY JANA

First, I must thank God for inspiring me to add this fourth book to my body of work. I thank Michael Baran for agreeing to go on this journey with me. Coauthorship is no small endeavor, and I appreciate him for his grace and patience while we made it happen. Thank you to Jillian Abel for diving in as a research assistant and keeping things moving during the launch and tours for my two previous books. To the indomitable TMI Portfolio team for bearing with me through my authorship journey. I want to acknowledge my family for always believing in my capacity to express myself creatively, and my friends, at whose expense my books tend to be written. When I am writing books I tend to miss the parties, gatherings, and events that strengthen bonds. So thank you for allowing me to put this work into the world and giving up some of our time together. And to all of the people forced to endure the onslaught of SAE as we walk through daily life, I pray that this book offers a small light in the darkness.

MICHAEL BARAN

I thank my wife, Jill, who provided the time, the loving support, the sunshine, and the intense conversations for these ideas to grow and find their way into this book. I thank my children, Rio, Solomon, Raphael, and Carmelo, for keeping me balanced and laughing and hopeful for the future in the way that they recognize and fight against the subtle exclusions they see in their orbits. I thank Tiffany Jana for partnering with me on this undertaking. The way Tiffany does this work with unrelenting ferocity for the mission and a generosity of spirit is a model for us all to follow. This book would not be a book, in all the meanings you can imagine, without Steve Piersanti and the Berrett-Koehler team, and I am so appreciative. My inQUEST colleagues, especially longtime friend and collaborator Michael Handelman, push, challenge, and support me (and one another) in the best possible ways, and I am proud to call them my work family. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to study the subtleties of culture without Bradd Shore or the intricacies of cognition and race without Lawrence Hirschfeld. I thank so many of you (Aimee Cox, I’m looking at you) who pushed me to use my privilege and my research to try and make the world a better place. Special acknowledgment to those who have shared their stories of subtle and not-so-subtle exclusion with me over the years. Your sharing has led to this book, which I hope is a valuable tool as we move toward a more equitable future together.