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'Black Don't Crack:' overcoming obstacles to leadership.
Navigating the hidden rocks and currents of the academic river represents a challenge for most women. But for black women whose work environments often emphasize skin color and ignore their multiple identities, it's especially difficult.
Most of us still struggle to be taken seriously and judged on our accomplishments. Black women also face challenges to their ethnicity and misperceptions of their role.
Christina Davis, assistant director for university housing and residence life and Natalie Byrdsong, resident director, both at Philadelphia's Temple University and Elisha Reid, residence hall coordinator for the Aztec Corner apartments at San Diego State University, are black women who work at predominantly white institutions (PVVIs). In many ways, the issues they face differ than those of their white colleagues.
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At the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) conference held in Boston in March, the trio shared some of their experiences around ethnicity and gender, while suggesting potential solutions for minority leaders traveling the same road.
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