Women of Color student affairs staff experience the nexus of gendered and racialized traumatization regularly in their institutional environments; yet, their experiences are underrepresented in both student affairs leadership and in scholarly literature. Furthermore, identity-conscious, trauma-aware supervision is a promising protective strategy…

Purpose: Marginalization exists in many organizations, despite a zero-tolerance stance on discrimination, abuse and harassment. Human resource development (HRD) professionals are increasingly asked to respond to the calls for crucial conversations on race and diversity. However, traditional HRD methods and tools may not be sufficient to address…

Over the years, there has been an underrepresentation of Black males in the Geotechnical Engineering field in the United States. White men have dominated the Geotechnical Engineering sector, and that practice continues today. According to Fatourou et al. (2019), the disparity of Blacks in the engineering workforce is a universal matter that speaks…

Hegemonic institutions continue to promote the importance of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging initiatives (DIB). However, the persons in power creating these initiatives are often White men and women (Bischel and McChesney, 2017), that do not understand the complexity of the lived experience of Black, Brown, and African American people within…

Much prior research has examined the dearth of women in the IT industry. The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions of women in IT within the context of information security and assurance. This paper describes results from a study of a relatively new career path to see if there are female-friendly opportunities that have not existed…