Milwaukee’s departing health commissioner says race played a part in every difficulty she suffered while trying to do her job.
Jeanette Kowalik’s last day before leaving for a position in Washington will be September 22nd.
She describes dealing with racism when she tried to implement policies and receiving threats from white supremacists.
She says she had already been threatened previously, but things got worse when the COVID-19 pandemic continued.
Kowalik says she also experienced discrimination in the workplace from her colleagues and that kept her from doing the job she wanted to do.
