#herstorycontest

In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, Oracle + GirlGeekX asked me to share a story of a woman who’s inspired me as part of their #HerStoryContest. So I did in this video. If you’re thinking it *has* to be Tina Fey (because TINA!)… well, NOPE. I dug deeper to tell *this* story… Watch the video above. Or here’s the scannable version, if you’re a reader more than a watcher: Beryl Markham was born in England but grew up in Kenya. She was the first person to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic… from East to West. She wrote about it in her memoir, West with the Night. I read her memoir while I was commuting into Boston to my first job after college (hey look! I found an old train ticket in it!) After she’d published it, her ex-husband claimed that he — and not Beryl — […]