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E-Poster

Feminist Scholarship

The Celebration Mentoring Model: Decolonizing Doctoral Mentoring Utilizing Black Feminist Thought

Friday, October 25, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Poster 8A
Black women seldom see themselves represented, let alone succeeding, in higher education. With less than three percent of doctoral degrees across disciplines awarded to Black women, a mentoring model through a BFT lens has been developed. Mentorship practices like allyship rooted in cultural humility and interdisciplinary peer mentoring are encouraged.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Upon completion, participants will be able to describe how whiteness and oppression are upheld and perpetuated through traditional mentoring practices.
  2. Upon completion, participants will be able to demonstrate mentoring practices that encompass Black Feminist Thought from a decolonized perspective.
  3. Upon completion, participants will be able to define decolonization and how endorsing colonizer perspectives can harm Black women in doctoral programs.