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One of my favorite examples of liminal excellence comes from the late Dr. Claudia Alexander,
我最欣賞的一位具有交叉才能的榜樣是已故的克勞迪婭·亞歷山大博士，
a black woman plasma physicist, who passed away this past July after a 10-year bout with breast cancer.
她是一名黑人女性，等離子物理學家，她與乳腺癌斗爭了10年之久，于7月份剛剛過世。
She was a NASA project scientist who spearheaded the NASA side of the Rosetta mission,
她是美國太空總署項目科學家，在羅塞塔計劃中帶領美國太空總署的團隊，
which became famous this year for landing a rover on a comet, and the 1.5 billion dollar Galileo mission to Jupiter,
羅塞塔計劃因為今年成功登陸彗星而聞名，還有耗資15億美元的伽俐略木星探測計劃，
two high-profile scientific victories for NASA, the United States and the world.
這是兩項非常了不起的科學成就，對美國太空總署，對美國，對全世界而言都是如此。
Dr. Alexander said it this way: "I'm used to walking between two cultures.
亞歷山大博士是這么說的：“我曾經在兩種文化間游走。
For me, it's among the purposes of my life to take us from states of ignorance to states of understanding
對我而言，我生命的意義之一，就是讓我們從被忽略變成被理解，
with bold exploration that you can't do every day."
這需要極大的勇氣和探索精神，不是那么輕而易舉的。”
This shows exactly the power of a liminal person.
這恰恰體現了“交叉人”的力量。
She had the technical ability to spearhead some of the most ambitious space missions of our time,
她有非凡的技術能力，能領導當代最雄心勃勃的太空任務，
and she perfectly understood her place of being exactly who she was in any place she was.
而且她非常明白自己的地位，無論在哪，她都能忠實的做自己。
Jessica Matthews, inventor of the SOCCKET line of sports products, like soccer balls,
杰西卡·馬修斯，是體育產品SOCCKET的發明人，SOCCKET像足球一樣，
that generate renewable energy as you play with them, said it this way:
你在踢它的時候就能產生可再生能源，她這樣說過：
"A major part of invention isn't just creating things,
“發明的意義不僅僅在于創造產品，
it's understanding people and understanding the systems that make this world."
還在于理解人，理解組成這個世界的系統。”
The reason I tell my story and the story of Dr. Alexander and Jessica Matthews is because they are fundamentally intersectional stories,
我之所以講自己的故事，還有亞歷山大博士和杰西卡·馬修斯的故事，是因為從本質上來講，這些都是關于交點的故事，
the stories of lives lived at the nexus of race, gender and innovation.
關于種族、性別和創新是如何聯系在一起的故事。
