from the U.S. Census Bureau, about 9 million identified as two or more races. As more and more people identify as multiracial, conversations like the one Yara had are so vital. And she's doing all of this on top of getting Michelle Obama to write her aletter of recommendationandgetting into collegeCheck out the interviewhere is running for Congress in Massachusetts’s 3rd district. Asthe descendant Already it felt from their conversation as though she were walking a tightrope, and a single misplaced word could send her plunging. Luka had gone over the basics of negotiation with her; the memory lit like a candle inside the darkness of the cell. She eventually attended Harvard College, where she worked as“a janitor to put herself through school.”