But as a woman of color, Lee said she immediately felt uncomfortable and ignored by other attendees.
“The pattern was obvious,” she said. “White men were not a fan of having me at this conference, let alone running it.”
It all came to a head, she said, when Prenzlow, who was appointed by Polis, stood at the front of the conference hall and shouted at her in front of 600 guests: “There she is! In the back of the bus!”
Lee claimed that she was so embarrassed that she ran into the arms of another Black woman to cry about the insensitive comment, which she felt referenced
segregationist American history.