Listen to Black Women: Intersectional Stories From Community Allies Who Fight Educational Battles

Session Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Artists, pastors, business leaders, and scientists are among the many organizational stakeholders whose fields serve as platforms for expanding educational researchers’ conceptualizations of identity-based motivation and learning. In a conscious effort to engage organizational stakeholders, this session highlights the stories of Black women whose educational battles help (1) explain how intersectionality shapes the way these stakeholders prepare and facilitate the sharing of information, (2) explain the role intersectionality plays in our collective practices and learning, (3) re-imagine the community-engaged practice of storytelling as an instructional tool for educators. This session re-members intersectionality as a way to speak to and center the experiences of Black women in educational spaces where they remain misunderstood or marginalized.

Sub Unit

• Division C - Learning and Instruction

Chairs

• Margaret A. Brunson, Illumined Leadership Solutions

• DeLeon Gray, Black and Belonging

Papers

• I Am: How Identity and Purpose Facilitates Collaboration and Conscious Community Action - Margaret A. Brunson, Illumined Leadership Solutions

• Only the Educated Are Free: Identifying, Accepting, and Inverting Perceptions and Realities to Ensure Student Success in Higher Education - Nadielka Bishop, Independent Scholar-Practitioner

• Invisible Walls: Uncovering Uncomfortable Truths to Create Healthy Communities - Ayodele Gomih, Independent Scholar-Practitioner

• Bring Me My Purse: A Tale of Culturally Specific Data Collection and Reporting - Monet Noelle Marshall, MOJOAA Performing Arts Company

• Remember When: Harnessing the Power of Remembrance to Inform Personal and Communal Spiritual Practices - Lisa Yebuah, Southeast Raleigh Table

Discussant

• Lynette Parker