The Embodiment of Culturally Responsive Mentoring in Academia

• In Event: Expanding on the Scholarship of a Pioneer Advocate for Racial Justice

Abstract

How can we sustain our identities while enacting culturally responsive mentoring? Understanding personal identity is a lifelong journey. As the cultures and communities we come to belong to shift, so do we. This is especially true for BIPOC. Therefore, it is essential to consider the role of culturally responsive mentoring for BIPOC students and faculty in higher education. This paper examines how mentoring in community and academic contexts can simultaneously dismantle White hegemonic practices while reifying the cultural survival and thriving of mentors and mentees. As educators of Color, we reflect and draw on our practices and our active mentoring from Dr. Gay to offer

a framework for culturally responsive mentoring that might be applied to practitioner and researcher contexts to advance racial justice.

Authors

• A Longoria, Western Washington University

• Raedell Boateng, University of Washington