‘A Layered Life’ with Gladys DeClouet On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Gladys H. DeClouet, former senior executive running multi-billion-dollar businesses, pioneer, and author of “ A Layered Life: Breaking Barriers as a trailblazing Black Woman in Corporate America. In Black America is a long-running, nationally-syndicated program dedicated to all facets of the African-American experience. Host John L. Hanson profiles a diverse selection of current and historically significant figures whose stories help illuminate life in Black America. Gladys H. DeClouet is the author of “ A Layered Life: Breaking Barriers as a trailblazing Black Woman in Corporate America.’ On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Gladys H. DeClouet, former senior executive running multi-billion-dollar businesses, pioneer, and author of “ A Layered Life: Breaking Barriers as a trailblazing Black Woman in Corporate America.’ Born in Jacksonville, FL., in the 1950’s during racial desegregation and before the women's rights movement, DeClouet shattered expectations by becoming the first female engineer in offshore oil and gas exploration and production. As a pioneering African American woman in corporate America, DeClouet climbed to the highest echelons of leadership in both the oil and restaurant industries-ultimately running multi-billion-dollar divisions in spaces where women, especially women of color, were rarely welcomed.to make a donation that helps sustain and support the creation of podcasts like this one from KUT & KUTX Studios.John L. Hanson is the producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio series In Black America. It’s heard on home station KUT at 10 p.m. Tuesdays and 6:30 a.m. Sundays — and weekly on close to 20 stations across the country. The weekly podcast of IBA, the only nationally broadcast Black-oriented public affairs radio program, is one of KUT’s most popular podcasts.