Counterstories for Multigenerational Resilience: "Let the Truth Be Told" by Women of Color Educational Researchers

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Abstract

This paper tells the counter-stories of three women of color educational researchers at various stages of their professional career. The three authors are Chinese-American, Latina, and Iranian-American and they are tenured, pre-tenure, and retired/consulting in predominantly white institutions. The authors wrote counter-stories about their lived experiences in higher education, with a focus on their intersectional agency and multigenerational resilience as daughters and mothers in academia. Their counter-stories corroborate the status-quo of gender and racial inequity in higher education. The microaggressions they experienced, though contributing to the imposter syndrome, became transformative synergies for their social construction of sisterhood, collective agency, and resilience in higher education.

Authors

• Yin Lam Lee-Johnson, Webster University
  Presenting Author

• Juana Maria Reyes, Lewis University
  Presenting Author

• Nahid Nader-Hashemi, Washington University - St. Louis
  Presenting Author