Personal Narrative: My Disagreements

While I was the president of a charitable Junior Achievement organization, PS Recycle, one coworker and I had strong personalities and leadership qualities. We were incredibly passionate, and each had many great, yet conflicting ideas.
Her approach to disagreements was to crack down hard on our other teammates, act out, and try to emotionally-manipulate the others into choosing her side over mine. It was hard to be yelled at, undermined and insulted. For a second, I thought about calling her the names she was calling me and talk over her, etc. To react with grace, kindness and professionalism, in the face of bullying, was one of the most challenging things I have ever done.
Over many meetings, I learned she had an autistic sister, her mother