Q&A Interview with Tamara Winfrey-Harris

SUCCESS: Tell me about the experience of interviewing women for the profiles for your book. 

Tamara Winfrey-Harris: This is an opportunity to see how personal the idea of freedom is. There’s not one idea, and I think if there’s one takeaway people can have from the book, it’s that liberation is yours. My freedom may not be your freedom. 

Part of us getting free is being in a space where we can all realize those visions of freedom—no matter what they are.

S: In the book, you spoke about spending decades fighting biases and how you are now in a position to change these [through your career in philanthropy]. Imagine you’re retiring tomorrow and you’re looking back—what would you like to see? 

TWH: I would like people to say that I was a storyteller of the black femme experience, and more importantly, that …