Scholarly Personal Narratives: Pamela Luster
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
Release Date: 12/03/2021
Virtual OCCRL Summer Equity Academy
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
Advancing Racialized Equity at Community Colleges: Lessons from California - July 30 In 1996, Proposition 209 in California banned the use of race in admissions across the state higher education system. This July 30, 2024, virtual OCCRL Equity Academy focused on understanding lessons from the West Coast to address the potential impact of the recent U.S. Supreme Court's decision on race-conscious admissions in the Midwest. The keynote speaker, Dr. Marissa Vasquez, as well as Lorenzo Baber, Ayinde Rochon, and Maria Wright, discussed their tools and strategies to support equitable access for...
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Scholarly Personal Narratives: Soko Starobin
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
In this episode, Soko Starobin talks about her life as an educator and activist, and reveals a harrowing health incident she faced.
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Scholarly Personal Narratives: Pamela Luster
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
In this episode, Pamela Luster talks about her life and journey toward equity and excellence and how it shaped her. .
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Scholarly Personal Narratives: Frank Harris III
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
In this episode, scholar Frank Harris III talks about his early childhood experiences in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He also relates the positive influence of his maternal grandmother, his schooling in California after moving to that state, and how he broke into the academy.
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Scholarly Personal Narratives: Leslie Gonzalez
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
In this episode, scholar Leslie Gonzalez talks about her biographical history and development as a scholar, which includes lessons and insights she has learned along the way. During her talk, Gonzalez delves into her Chicana feminist epistemology to reveal how notions such as objectivity and neutrality are really just convenient covers for how whiteness and masculinity have shaped the academy.
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Scholarly Personal Narratives: Amalia Z. Dache
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
In this episode, scholar Amalia Z. Dache talks about her background and heritage and the role those aspects of her life play in the research that she conducts on racial-justice activism. During her talk, Dache reads excerpts from and discusses selected articles and manuscripts.
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Culturally Sustaining Stories in Black Student Activism
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
In this OCCRL Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories episode, we explore the dimensions of black student activism, a highly relevant topic of discourse considering the chilly campus environments of many colleges and universities today. To provide depth, meaning, and critical insights about black student activism, we talk to panelists Amalia Dache, Frederick Douglass Dixon, Jael Kerandi, and Jonathan McElderry.
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Culturally Sustaining Practices Across Institutional Types
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
This podcast covers culturally sustaining practices that support racially minoritized students across institutional designations within the community college sector. Dr. Vicki McGillin, Marcus Peanort, and Jameta Rogers participated as panelists. The discussion focuses on the important roles administrators play in creating campus spaces, services, and policies that reflect the needs of racially minoritized students within the respective roles of the panelists.
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Culturally Sustaining Practices on Race for a Better Campus Climate
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
The fourth Equity Speaks podcast from OCCRL explores campus racial climates that racially minoritized students experience. The interview with Joseph Alonzo, Charles H.F. Davis, and Dominique Hill also covers the rise of student activism and how higher education professionals can leverage culturally sustaining practices to support activists and the campus community.
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Culturally Sustaining Wraparound Services for Student Success
Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories
For the third episode of the Equity Speaks podcast series, we explore the culturally responsive wraparound student-support services that administrators use to support racially minoritized student populations on community college campuses. Antonio Jackson, Alvina Thomas, and Gabrielle Thompson are the panelists. The show is hosted by Krystal Andrews and Colvin Georges Jr. of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership.
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In this episode, Pamela Luster talks about her life and journey toward equity and excellence and how it shaped her.