The Majestic Place: The Freedom Possible in Black Women's Leadership (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781538198599)

About the Editors

Wendi S. Williams is a psychologist, advocate, and educator, and she applies her work at the intersection of education and psychology to her scholarship and leadership praxis. 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. She joined Fielding Graduate University provost and senior vice president in October 2022. 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. Learn more about Dr. Williams work at drwendiwilliams.com.

Whitne? L. Garrett-Walker (she/her) is the assistant dean of Credentialing and Partnerships in the School of Education, University of San Francisco. Whitne? is a Black, Indigenous (Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana, enrolled member) and Queer wife, mother and scholar born and raised on Raymaytush Ohlone Land. Dr. Garrett-Walker 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, Whitne? 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 D. 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. She is passionate about education and has extensive experience teaching in cross-cultural contexts. After completing her teaching practicum in Massachusetts, Spponer was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship which brought her teaching career to Taiwan for one year, and she further developed her teaching and language skills as a middle and high school educator in Shanghai. 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.

Contributors

Yetunde Ade-Serrano, Norka Blackman-Richards, Krista L. Cortes, Whitne? L. Garrett-Walker, Roxane L. Gervais, Roseilyn Guzman, Ren?e Heywood, Rhema Heywood, Rachelle Rogers-Ard, Kaiayo Zitk?la Shatteen, Nia D. Spooner, DeLisha Tapscott, Wendi S. Williams