This session provides generative space for counter-stories that confront barriers that often times deter African-American women from advancing their agenda in schools and academe. While each of these women share largely from their individually unique experiences in doctoral preparation and advancement in their chosen professions in administration, educational leadership and/or the professoriate, each highlights particular stressors that allude negative stereotypes and inequities that continue to exist (Grant, 2012).
Chairs/Discussants:
Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, University of Missouri-Columbia
Cosette Grant-Overton, University of Cincinnati