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In
The Majestic Place: The Freedom Possible in Black Women's Leadership, editors Wendi S. Williams, Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, and Nia Spooner curate the leadership narratives of Black women leaders from a range contexts, including education, health, and non-profit industries, in which they serve some of the most vulnerable and chronically disserved. Focused on the stages of women's intra-personal and spiritual development, this book aims to create an expansive vision of Black women's leadership grounded in lived experience. Contributors to this book are Black women scholar-practitioners who lead in higher stakes context of serving and cultivating people and change. Each was invited to express their leadership experience(s) in essay, poetry, and/or prose form to offer a lens into the interiority of Black women's leadership praxis that is not always welcomed or heard.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: You Are Welcome by Wendi Williams, Whitneé Garrett-Walker, and Nia Spooner
Part I: Mother's Milk by
Whitneé Garrett-WalkerChapter 1: I Never Wanted to be a Midwife: Stories of Birth by
Kaiayo Z. ShatteenChapter 2: Dando LECHE: Conceptualizing Black-centered Leadership as Mothering Through the Testimonios of Two AfroLatinx Higher Education Professionals by
Krista L. Cortes and Roseilyn GuzmanChapter 3: Beyond the Veil: The Black Girl I Could Be by
DeLisha TapscottChapter 4: Refueling: Black Women Leaders Manifesting African Warrior Queenship by
Norka Blackman-Richards Part II: A Woman Will Manifest by
Whitneé Garrett-WalkerChapter 5: Life, Love, and Leadership by
Rachelle Rogers-ArdChapter 6: The Audacity, Politics, and Pragmatism of Black Women's Leadership by
Andrea E. EvansChapter 7: This Too Shall Pass, or Will It? by
Roxane L. Gervais and Yetunde Ade-SerranoPart III: A More Radical Elsewhere by
Whitneé Garrett-WalkerChapter 8: Keisha vs. Karen: We Ain't Doing This No More! by
Reneé Heywood and Rhema HeywoodChapter 9: Conclusion by
Whitneé Garrett-WalkerReferences
Index
About the Contributors
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Wendi S. Williams, PhD, is a psychologist, advocate, and educator, and currently serves as provost and senior vice president of Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Williams is the 2026 president of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Williams began her career as assistant professor in counselor education at Long Island University - Brooklyn and has served as an academic administrator for progressive, justice-focused higher education institutions, like Bank Street College of Education and Mills College, School of Education. Dr. Williams is an accomplished scholar in the areas of Black women and girls leadership and development, most notably with her recently published book Black Women at Work: On Refusal and Recovery (2023). Learn more about Dr. Williams's work at drwendiwilliams.com.Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, PhD (she/her) is assistant dean of Credentialing and Partnerships in the School of Education, University of San Francisco. Whitneé is a Black, Indigenous (Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana, enrolled member) and Queer wife, mother, and scholar born and raised on Raymaytush Ohlone Land. Whitneé has extensive experience loving, living and working in the field of public education and has spent over a decade as a middle and high school teacher, instructional coach and school administrator in urban public schools in Oakland Unified and San Francisco Unified School Districts, respectively. Dr. Garrett-Walker is a triple-credentialed California educator who believes deeply in the power of critical hope, healing, and educational justice in the field of education. As a scholar practitioner, Whitneé uses qualitative research as the foundation of feeding her desire to explore and make known the experiences of the promise, challenge and potential of Black and Indigenous women in educational leadership.Nia Spooner is a former educator and current doctoral student in educational leadership and policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. All of her education, teaching, and lived experiences as a Black and Chinese woman have informed her scholarly interests. Nia’s research focuses on culturally responsive and equity-oriented leadership in education.
