1. A Seat at The Table: How Women of Color Navigate Predominantly White Spaces on Their Campuses
Dr. Khalilah Doss, McPherson College
Dr. Saran Donahoo, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Tashay Dennie, M.Ed., The University of Kansas
T’Erica Hudson, M.Ed., Baylor University
Gabrielle M. Williams, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Monday, March 5, 2018 from 2:30pm-3:20pm Convention Center, ROOM 113 C

2. F.U.B.U. What the Research Says…
Theoretical Framework: Black Feminist Theory/Thought Black Feminist Thought highlights the unique and intersectional standpoint of a Black Woman’s identities (Collins, 2002). In essence this theory allows us to examine the lived experiences of black women within the context of several lenses. These experiences serve as a common vein that links black women together. The most common theme of Black Feminist Theory, is the shared experience, of black women who struggle against: sexism, racism, classism, and general bias and discrimination, and how it impacts their overall experiences and consciousness in society.

3. F.U.B.U. What the Research Says…
Intersectionality Intersectionality is a way of understanding and analyzing the complexity in the world. In people and in human experiences. The events and conditions of social and political life and the self can seldom be understood as shaped by one factor. They are generally shaped by many factors in diverse and mutually influencing ways. When it comes to social inequality, people’s lives and the organization of power in a given society are better understood as being shaped not by a single axis of social division, be it race or gender or class, but by many axes that work together and influence each other. Intersectionality as an analytic tool gives people netter access to the complexity of the world and themselves.
(Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge 2016)

4. F.U.B.U. What the Research Says…
In the past African American Administrators, Administrators of color for that matter, would show up on PWIs in roles that were specific to marginalized students, i.e., TRIO, Affirmative Action/EOE, Director of minority students, etc.
They tend to leave PWI organizations prematurely because of:
lack of professional identity
lack of career path
questionable working conditions
disparity in compensation
internal completion
external competition
The above has set the stage for the complexed experiences that African American women have had in higher education (Lee Jones 2001)

5. Cranes in the Sky…
Struggles

6. Don’t Touch my Hair…
Authenticity

7. Seeking Assistance and Mentorship
Pedestals…
Seeking Assistance and Mentorship

8. Borderline…
Self-Care

9. How you fixing to get this win?
Tina Taught Me…
How you fixing to get this win?

10. Resources
Brown, J. (2016). Inclusion: Diversity, the new workplace and the will to change. Collins, P.H., and Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality Jones, L. (2001). Retaining African Americans in higher education: challenging paradigms for retaining, students, faculty and administrators.

11. Rise: Closing Thoughts and Questions
Remember to Own Your Dopeness “Fall in your ways so you can crumble Fall in your ways so you can sleep at night Fall in your ways so you can wake up and rise.” -Solange Knowles

12. Thank you for joining us today!
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See you in Los Angeles in 2019!