Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops (RIW), University of Michigan
Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshops (RIW), University of Michigan

Women of Color at the Academy (WOCATA)

For the past six years, WOCATA has centered and elevated the voices, experiences, and research of BIPOC women and femmes in the academy. Our core research topics and questions include how we—as emerging scholars, community members, and ancestors—might utilize transformative research paradigms; Indigenous epistemologies; Black feminist theorizations; methodologies from Chicanx, Dominicana, and Filipina scholars; or scholarship connected our different diaspora from a place of beauty and joy to sustain hope and optimism for marginalized voices in academia as we struggle for systemic change. Although we are housed within the Marsal Family School of Education at U-M (in particular, the Educational Studies, Higher Education, and Joint English & Education programs), WOCATA’s ever-growing community has interdisciplinary members at many levels—including undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers—across this institution and at many others nationwide.



Village Mentoring Event with Our Community Reads

-
East Quadrangle (1405)

The purpose of this dinner is to open up discussions about what needs parents have for professional development (e.g., resumes, cover letters, academic questions) that can be provided by students from the Black Psychology Graduate Student Association and Women of Color and the Academy. The main goal is to connect graduate students with parents from the local community to support parents’ education and work, dream-making and goals. This event aims to discuss dream-making for education and career-related goals for local parents and survey parents’ professional development needs. Central questions for this event are: What support do parents want for their education and work-related goals?,How do parents’ education goals connect to the education goals they have for their children?, and How can graduate student organizations contribute to mentoring events for parents and children.

If you are interested in volunteering or attending this event, register using this session link.

Parents and children from an Ypsilanti youth organization come to UM's campus for dinner discussion about graduate students education journeys and professional support.





For questions or contact information click here