Persevere: A gift from Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Whitney Alese
4 min readMar 25, 2022
Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson tearing up at her Supreme Court Nomination Hearing

It had been a long week for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. And it was only Wednesday.

The Supreme Court nominee had been battered for hours since Monday of the week. What can only be imagined as nerve wracking anxiety of sitting before Members of Congress for up to 10 hours each day was only made worse by the political grandstanding, misogynoir, and racism Judge Jackson was made…

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Whitney Alese

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.