Challenges Female Black Educational Leaders Face Amid COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter: A Critical Autoethnography

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Abstract

The purpose of this collaborative critical autoethnography is to understand how intersections of race, gender, power, class, family, and social justice have shaped the identities of female Black educational leaders, and how those factors influenced their actions within the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. We show how these Black women have shaped their identities as educational leaders through the intersections of their roles, and how these intersections affected their professional decisions during these concomitant crises. We consider what value White male educational leaders may contribute to understanding these experiences.

Authors

• James F Lane, University of Phoenix

• Shaquanah Robinson, University of Phoenix

• Alyncia M. Bowen, Franklin University