At the height of the job search grind, creative professional Aliyah Jones decided to try something radical: create a fake LinkedIn profile as a white woman. Same resume. Same experience. But what followed over the next 8 months revealed a sharp, uncomfortable truth: whiteness still opens doors in corporate America that Blackness cannot. Corporate Catfish is not just about one woman’s experiment; it’s about the shared reality of countless Black professionals who navigate code-switching, microaggressions, and systemic barriers every day just to survive, let alone thrive.
