Division K Fireside Chat. Mentoring Within and Across Differences: Mentors Supporting Mentees and Future Graduate Student Mentors

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Mentors play a critical role in graduate students' success, in the doctorate and beyond. As they move through the doctorate into new professional positions, graduate students will also become mentors. Truly empowering mentoring involves valuing and working within and across our multiple, intersecting identities. In particular, we must recognize how racism and white supremacy can reinscribe racial inequities in and through the mentoring relationship. Panelists will discuss how they mentor within and across race and other intersecting differences to create powerful mentoring experiences for graduate students and colleagues. By acknowledging the tacit work of racial justice and equity, the panel will center and celebrate the joy of cultivating equitable and just mentoring practices in teaching and teacher education.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Cosponsors

• Division K - Teaching and Teacher Education

• Graduate Student Council

Chairs

• Keirah Comstock, University of Rochester

• Gabrielle Elizabeth Bernal, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Speakers

• Wayne Au, University of Washington - Bothell

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan

• Kimberly A. White-Smith, University of San Diego

Discussant

• Gabrielle Elizabeth Bernal, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Panelists

• Wayne Au, University of Washington - Bothell

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Deborah Loewenberg Ball, University of Michigan

• Kimberly A. White-Smith, University of San Diego