Focusing on academia as an organizational entity, this paper discusses feminist standpoint epistemology (FSE)--defined as the idea that the world looks different depending on the individual's vantage point--and offers tools to transform teaching and research endeavors in organizational communication. It also offers extended excerpts about the experiences and challenges faced by a Black female faculty member at the University of Colorado. The paper centers discussion around Sandra Harding's (1991) conception of FSE: (1) advocating using women's lives as a foundation for constructing knowledge; (2) demanding that academe allow women to speak from and about their views of reality; and (3) using women's everyday lives as a basis for criticizing dominant claims based on men's lives. The paper argues that there are many reasons why FSE should be incorporated into the study of organizational communication, a field that has been known to greet feminism with silence. The paper also states that gender studies in organizational communication tend to assess gender as an independent variable rather than a social construct. The paper addresses a range of issues that have influenced this particular faculty member, including the difficulty of knowing when to take issue with inaccurate comments; how and when to contest inappropriate styles of management; how to deal with those who question her abilities, implicitly or explicitly; and how to manage the social demands on her as a black woman faculty member in a largely white university. (Contains 58 references.) (TB)