Monique Woodard’s Paradox

Welcome to Free Radicals — a collaboration between Everything and Sherrell Dorsey, founder of The Plug. Free Radicals is a limited series celebrating those who embody leadership in this moment. Each edition features a conversation between Sherrell and a leader in tech, focusing on equity, advancement, and progress. This is the first edition, featuring Monique Woodard. Enjoy.

Monique Woodard describes her life as a Black venture capitalist as a paradox of extreme visibility and extreme invisibility. 

On the one hand, she is a living example of the future seemingly everyone wants to create: a Black woman with the power to allocate capital. She is here, but people like her aren’t equitably distributed yet. This invites attention.