Jacquie Clermont - Author Illustrator

Author & Illustrator

Here find essays, poetry, and illustrations that put a light on injustice, draw insight from history, and argue for humanity.
I write about what I’ve learned over my sometimes difficult journey from a small blue-collar town to the Ivy League to France to academia to corporate America to life in Mexico. You win or you learn. I’ve done both.

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Just Published

My poem, “Crossing Massachusetts Avenue,” was just published in The Silver Note, a poetry anthology. It’s not easy to cross the street when it seems like everyone is trying to run you over. I wrote this poem after being plowed off the road (I was on my bike) and onto a sidewalk by a woman in a black sedan.

Make it or die, 
as frail old ladies do, 
too slow for the light and cars,
who go by the light, 
speed over them.

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You can access the full poem here.

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Latest Post

New post in my LinkedIn newsletter, “What I’ve Learned.” Have you ever been a shadow worker?

Get Out of the Shadows

When I started out in business, I thought discrimination against women was caused by a general lack of faith in our ability to succeed. I muted myself to power suits and dismal dark colors. I never wore bright lipstick. I repressed my love for the color pink. Anything to make them forget my gender.
It took years for me to conclude, through extensive observation and frequently painful personal experience, that the cause of discrimination is in fact a firm belief that women can and will succeed and a commitment to doing anything to prevent their success.

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Insight

“What I’ve Learned,” my LinkedIn newsletter, is where I reflect about life lessons from my life and career. Join me as I wade the rancid waters of politics, power, and personal l0ss.

Writing

Writing is my way of fighting for justice, respect, and reason.

How Immigration Made Us Great

Now in New York’s Neue Galerie, artist Gustav Klimt’s opulent “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” is just one of the many gifts bestowed on the United States by Nazism and bigotry, along with multiple advances in art, culture, and the sciences.

Hate DEI Programs, but Love Free Markets? Read On.

What is holding women and minorities back? With more than 40 years in corporate, I think I’ve figured it out.

Here’s to a Crazy One

Everybody loves disrupters, but only after all the disrupting is over, when the disruption becomes the norm, and the disrupter becomes, say, CEO of Apple Computer. Or, as is more frequently the case, after the disrupter is burned, beheaded, shot, or indefinitely detained.