For our interview, Christiáne Harris, of Rancho Cucamonga, CA, wore a tawny jumper with a jewel belt around her waist. A chunky turquoise necklace, two nose rings and pink acrylic nails accented her look in all the right ways. Her eyes sparkled with cat-eye liner and long lashes, along with two accentuating white dots on the inner and outer corners. She had piled her blond and brown, partially braided hair atop her head like an immemorial crown. Calling on notes of modern and ancient beauty, she was boldly fashionable, yet still professional, an incarnation of the empowered woman. So I was shocked to learn. . .