Her resounding, swift loss in the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump on November 5 means many things to different people, including the fact that American voters are unable to break the glass ceiling and elect a woman president.

Black women vote at some of the highest rates in the nation, but after Harris’s defeat, they wonder whether they will ever see one of themselves leading the nation.

Farida Jalalzai is a professor of political science and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee.