Truth About Us: A Call to Confront Bias, Embrace Empathy, and Build a More Inclusive World

Okuwobi, Oneya Fennell

Dervin, Fred

Crawford, Dana E

Williams, Ian

<i>Shedding the Chrysalis: Black Women Leading in Higher Education</i> features the voices of six experienced and emerging Black females in a variety of academic leadership roles. This book provides a Black feminist perspective, highlighting the need to address racial realism within higher education administration. These personal testimonies focus on a variety of levels in the academic hierarchy to emphasize the continuum across the lived experiences of these women, some of whom have served in multiple upper-level administrative roles. The contributors' positions range from postdoctoral research fellows to positions reporting to central administration at predominantly white institutions. <i>Shedding the Chrysalis</i> underscores what these women have learned from mentors, allies, and adversaries that can help us all--executive-level leaders, faculty and staff at all ranks, and those aspiring to leadership positions--to build and sustain a more stable terrain in academic leadership for a variety of minoritized groups.

Montgomery Tabron, La June