Today we are talking with Emi Nietfeld the author of the memoir Acceptance. Emi made it through a lot of difficult life circumstances like homelessness, mental health struggles, abusive relationships, assault, and navigated herself to safety as much as she could, finding success at Harvard University and in a career in software engineering. But she also thinks critically about the pressure to be a “perfect overcomer” and what effects that has had on her. Her story is an American Dream narrative and a critique of that narrative.
