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Ursula Burns on the fight for racial justice in corporate America: ‘We have to fundamentally change institutions’ Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY © CLAUDIO MARINESCO Ursula Burns In 2009, Ursula Burns became the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company. When she stepped down in 2016, there were no other Black women in the role. Today, there are two. Burns, who sits on the boards of Exxon, Uber and MIT, isn t willing to wait another few decades for more diversity at the top of America s corporations.  We have to fundamentally change institutions, she told USA TODAY in an interview. Burns, who was raised with her brother and sister in a housing project on the Lower East Side of New York City by a single mother from Panama, studied mechanical engineering, earning a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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