In this episode, we examine the ways in which Black women graduates have navigated predominantly White institutions (PWIs). Black feminists for decades have written about this issue and how they are simultaneously invisible yet hypervisible in spaces that are often discriminatory. Host Andrea Baldwin engages in a dialogue with two doctoral candidates Dr. Leslie Roberston Foncette and Dr. Jariah Strozier about their experiences within the academy. Dr. Foncette is a bilingual psychotherapist and gender scholar. Her research focuses on Caribbean and Black diaspora gender systems and factors influencing health and decision making for adolescent girls and women. Dr. Strozier is a public health researcher and her dissertation topic focuses on Black women’s health and the pathologization of Black women’s bodies in the medical space.
