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• Me:: (after demonstrating a piece of software I had written to be used for quality reporting by Medicare health plans): So that's how it works, any questions?

• Medicare Official:: Wow, it's great. Who is the programmer?

• Me:: I am.

• Medicare Official:: But who actually wrote the code?

• Me:: That would be me...the programmer.

• Because apparently Black, women programmers don't actually WRITE CODE. 10 years ago, at headquarters in Washington, D.C. I felt irritated at having to explain that yes, I am a REAL programmer.

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