Comments on: Naturally Professional — Marisa, Reliability Engineer

By: naomi

naomi — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:17:29 +0000

Thanks for this feature, i am a medical doctor in Africa and the pressure is intense.someone asks me if i have lost my comb every time i wear a twist out. Marisa and Patrice for telling your story, i am very encouraged.

By: Seven

Seven — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:40:17 +0000

Praise heaven’s you’ve started this! My biggest concern and that amongst my counterparts in graduate school is that you cannot be natural and taken seriously in conservative business or the working world. I struggle with getting sew-ins and feeling like I’m selling out my soul just because I want to do consulting and don’t think they’d be hip to my lovely natural self. Please, please, please post more of these. Especially, women in financial services/consulting.

THanks!

By: robyn_elle_p

robyn_elle_p — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:28:33 +0000

I wish this article was available back when I was preparing to graduate from college! I am also and engineer, and in my senior year of college, I was advised that I’d better get a relaxer if I expected to land a job. Well, I did; and I suffered years of hair damage after that.

Eight years later, I’m newly natural again! I am confident in my job as a project engineer, and like Marisa, I keep my hair neat and natural in whatever professional circumstance. I find that it shows confidence, and that is absolutely necessary to be a black female engineer. Thanks for posting this! I hope it encourages other young naturals to resist straightening to have a “professional” look.

By: Sherry Blossom

Sherry Blossom — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:13:06 +0000

I LOVED this!! Especially the part about answering all the questions and understanding that criticism and “side eye” comments come from those that are uninformed. She is absolutely right about getting ride of misconceptions about natural hair with education! Love this series and I can not wait to see more!!!