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Podcast: Black Girl Nerds
Episode: 262: Comedian and Author Gina Yashere
Description: In this week's episode of the BGN Podcast, we welcome stand-up comedian and author Gina Yashere.Standup comedian Gina Yashere recently released her memoir Cack-Handed, which chronicles the story of growing up as a child of Nigerian immigrants in working-class London to becoming the first female engineer with the UK branch of Otis, the largest elevator company in the world. Her time at Otis was a baptism by fire dealing with racist and sexist co-workers, so she left to become a stand-up comic and became one of the top comedians in the UK. Gina then came to...