Whitney Headen

Updated about 12 years ago on 03/11/2014.

I was a marketing intern when a CMO told me that marketing to Black audiences was a waste of time. I was a marketing manager when an executive insisted that a Black model we hired for a campaign shoot could be lightened. She said it would make her “more inviting.” I was the head of marketing when a direct report told me that he was going to overstep my direction to get something approved even though I was the approver.