As black women in educational leadership we find ourselves wondering: Is the future ours? Both trailblazers and emerging scholars believed change was imminent in terms of the presence of black women in the field, but recent statistics show neither group’s vision has been realized. In this panel we invite junior and senior African American women to engage in a critical dialogue about this issue.
Participants:
Judy Alston, Ashland University
Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, University of Missouri-Columbia
Terah Talei Venzant Chambers, Texas A&M University
Dana Thompson Dorsey, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Andrea Elaine Evans, University of Illinois at Chicago
Gretchen Givens Generett, Duqesne University
Cosette Grant-Overton, University of Cincinnati
Sonya Douglass Horsford, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Gaetane Jean-Marie, University of Oklahoma
Patrice A. Mcclellan, Lourdes University
Linda C. Tillman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Gwendolyn Webb-Hasan, Texas A&M University
Anjale Welton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign