This article appeared in the December 2006 issue of
DiversityInc magazine. ReNeé Dunman, the youngest of four children born into a working-class home in Norfolk, Va., was hesitant when she had the opportunity to be a debutante at age 16--at least initially. "At the time, daughters of teachers and mail carriers were not debutantes, but yet my classmates were just like me," she says.
