Coming Out Stories: Heart of a Woman Posted in: Press

I graduated from Wake Forest University in the 1980s and there I met the university’s first Reynolds Professor of American Studies, Dr. Maya Angelou. I read all of her works, and especially her poem “I Rise.” The poem moved me very much. It would be a decade later that I would understand my destiny.  I was living in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the 1990s and working in the North Carolina Community College System as an…