Lisa Cook's path to Fed governor prepared her for a fight in the spotlight | NYGazet

Cook weathered racist attacks as a child and became a pioneer as a Black woman economist. Her latest fight is to keep her position on the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve.

At Spelman College in Atlanta, Lisa Cook is the “personification of excellence,” said Darlene Smith-Garner, a 2023 graduate of the historically Black women’s college, where Cook also studied. “We see her as one of our great alumnae, a model,” Smith-G... [7963 chars]