{"id":43996,"date":"2015-11-17T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43996"},"modified":"2015-11-17T19:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:32:37","slug":"amber-guild-of-collins-call-out-the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43996","title":{"rendered":"Amber Guild of Collins: Call Out the Elephant in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/15\/business\/amber-guild-of-collins-call-out-the-elephant-in-the-room.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Guild of Collins: Call Out the Elephant in the Room<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-14<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytcorneroffice\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Bryant<\/a><\/strong>, Corner Office Columnist and Deputy Science Editor<\/p>\n<p><em>This interview with <strong>Amber Guild<\/strong>, president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearecollins.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collins<\/a>, a brand consultancy, was conducted and condensed by <strong>Adam Bryant<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What were some early influences for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> I grew up in two different homes. I had my father\u2019s home in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a> and my mother\u2019s home in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell me more about your parents.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They never married. They became good friends, had me and then they separated. My dad later moved out to New Jersey with my stepmom, and my mother was in New York. Both were very politically active. I probably went to my first demonstration before I could walk. We were always protesting something or other at a rally.<\/p>\n<p>And I grew up in these two different cultural households. My dad\u2019s household was all white, and my mother and my two older sisters are black. I\u2019m the only one who\u2019s biracial. So I found myself always being a bridge in terms of culture and different classes.<\/p>\n<p>In my home in the city, we were poor. My dad\u2019s household was working-class, but there was always food on the table. Growing up with those two very distinct experiences started to form my relationship with the world and with people in different communities, and seeing both differences and similarities.<\/p>\n<p>Then, to top it all off, I ended up getting a scholarship to boarding school in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Connecticut\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut<\/a> when I was 14, which was another radically different culture and experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/15\/business\/amber-guild-of-collins-call-out-the-elephant-in-the-room.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Guild of Collins: Call Out the Elephant in the Room The New York Times 2015-11-14 Adam Bryant, Corner Office Columnist and Deputy Science Editor This interview with Amber Guild, president of Collins, a brand consultancy, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were some early influences for you? A. I grew up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,13743,8,20],"tags":[21906,21907,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-43996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adam-bryant","tag-amber-guild","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43997,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43996\/revisions\/43997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}