career person

So much of what I do, even as a career person, as a businesswoman, is in reaction to the fact that my mother couldn't make that choice.

“She wasn’t a career person that had knowledge of how the department worked.”

“She wasn’t a career person that had knowledge of how the department worked.”

You can also look back at the way that Michelle Obama, as a Black woman, a history-making Black woman on a presidential trail in 2008, was absolutely vilified during the primary campaign for having made very gently critical remarks about the nation’s history of racism—the most benignly critical remarks you could imagine—and was cast as a sort of career person, which she was, and then was absolutely packaged for the convention.

“It’s not possible to learn a new job like this in 90 days, so what’s the point of making this temporary appointment when you have a career person in the job now,” said a senior State Department official, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.