Participants experienced two simultaneous currents of race, gender, disability, and nation in their roles as educational leadership, organizations, and policy studies (ELOP) faculty: one running on emptiness and exhaustion, and another on wholeness and community. There is a both/and nature to the experience of being a BIFOC in ELOP. Even through the “empty” current, they activated love through creation, resistance, and vindication. 

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watercolor painting of a teal blue galaxy in space. There are lone stars scattered throughout.
“Growing Galaxies (Canis Major)”
watercolor painting of bright green ferns in front of a misty blue and purple background.
“Imagination vs. Exhaustion (Empty)”
Watercolor painting of three pale green cranes taking flight diagonally across the sky. There are clouds made of pink flowers and green mountain tops below. Some of the mountaintops are also made of pink flowers.
Finding Our Peace
watercolor and pencil painting of a light blue tasseled rug hanging from a clothesline. The rug has wonder woman logo, pink dahlias, prickly pear cacti, brown arms with fists raised clenching purple flowers.
“Vindication”

Thematic Studies