Jacquie Abram

About Jacquie Abram

I never knew the cost of being Black in corporate America. The price I would pay with my dignity and fundamental rights as a human being just to have a job that wasn\'t in a low-income sector. A job that had a satisfying career path and gave me and my family a chance to live the American Dream. But if I knew then what I know now, maybe I would\'ve done things differently before taking the job that traumatized and nearly destroyed me. Maybe I would\'ve bleached my dark skin to make it lighter or removed my long, Dookie braids to straighten my hair. Maybe I would\'ve bought blue contacts to hide my brown eyes and got a nose job with a butt reduction, too—you know, do all the things I shoulda, woulda, coulda done to look less like me and more like them just to fit into a mold I had no part in creating. No, I know me. And even if I could go back in time to that fateful day that changed my life in the worst way, I wouldn\'t change a thing \'cause I\'m the strong, beautiful, Black woman God created me to be—dark skin, Dookie braids, big butt, and all. And although the last five years of my employment were horrific and I suffered in ways most people cannot imagine, that\'s all behind me now. or so I thought. For anyone who doesn\'t know me, I\'m the author of an international best-selling & award-winning book that stops racists in their tracks called HUSH MONEY: HOW ONE WOMAN PROVED SYSTEMIC RACISM IN HER WORKPLACE & KEPT HER JOB. Hush Money is: An international best-selling & award-winning book featured in Forbes #1 Best Seller on Amazon #1 in Best Eye-Opening African American Women\'s Fiction on Goodreads Listopia #1 in Books to Improve Social Justice Awareness on Racism on Goodreads Listopia Recipient of the Readers\' Favorite Gold Medal for Social Issues Novels #3 in Top African American Christian Fiction on findthisbest Hush Money isn\'t just another book about systemic racism. For EMPLOYEES, it\'s a roadmap for fighting back against covert racism in the workplace & surviving the battle. For EMPLOYERS, it\'s a compass for identifying it because you can\'t fight what you can\'t see. If you are looking for a dynamic speaker who grips the audience from start to finish, consider booking me as a speaker for your next event. And if you decide to read Hush Money, let me know. I\'d love to speak with you on Zoom afterwards to hear your thoughts and share mine.

Experience

1. Public Speaker

   Black Speakers Collection

   Dec 2021 — Present

   Topics Include: Anti-Racism | Covert Racism | Texturism | Code Switching | Allyship | Toxic Workplace | Healing from Racial Trauma | DEI | Strong Black Woman Syndrome | Boundaries | Self-Care | Black Excellence | Racial Trauma |

Education

• Kaplan University

  Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA