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You're listening to Disinformed, a mini-series from There Are No Girls on the Internet.

I'm Bridget Todd.

I believe black women are the future of the internet. Much of the work to create that future, a safer, more inclusive one, has been built by

black women. But we need to acknowledge the sad reality that that work doesn't always come easy.

For the black women trying to build better platforms and push for changes in systems and institutions,

that work comes at a huge personal cost.

This is something that tech policy expert, Ifoma Uzoma knows all too well.

My full name is Ephoma Usoma, and I'm the founder and principal of the consulting

firm that's called Earthseed, which is actually named after the community that Octavia Butler

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