TY - GEN
T1 - Honoring Black Women's Work
T2 - 2021 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, RESPECT 2021
AU - Erete, Sheena
AU - Thompson, Naomi
AU - Standberry-Wallace, Miranda
AU - Ju, Bo
AU - Nacu, Denise
AU - Pinkard, Nichole
N1 - Funding Information:
This study is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation (1850505 and 1850543). We are especially grateful to the DYD learners, their parents and caring adults, DYD mentors and other staff, and the research and implementation teams across DePaul and Northwestern for their contributions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Leveraging Black Feminist Thought (BFT) as a framework for parent engagement and using testimonial authority as our research method, this paper describes how meaningful interactions were intentionally fostered among Black and Latinx parents in the Digital Youth Divas Program (DYD), a STEAM program designed for Black and Latina middle school girls. Specifically, the DYD's Community Relations and Engagement Manager (CREM), a Black woman and community resident, describes how she navigates local power structures that impede parent and youth participation in STEAM opportunities by creating a sustainable parent community with strong social capital and effectively communicating with parents in inclusive, culturally relevant ways that build trust. Her experiences highlight the multiple roles Black women play in transforming their communities to address issues of equitable and just access to quality informal learning opportunities as an act of resistance to historical inequity. Moreover, by highlighting her success in building a community of support for Black and Latina girls in STEAM, we argue that it is important for learning initiatives to leverage the power of Black women as change agents in their communities through equal partnership, proper compensation, and recognition of their contributions to STEM enrollment, persistence, and retention.
AB - Leveraging Black Feminist Thought (BFT) as a framework for parent engagement and using testimonial authority as our research method, this paper describes how meaningful interactions were intentionally fostered among Black and Latinx parents in the Digital Youth Divas Program (DYD), a STEAM program designed for Black and Latina middle school girls. Specifically, the DYD's Community Relations and Engagement Manager (CREM), a Black woman and community resident, describes how she navigates local power structures that impede parent and youth participation in STEAM opportunities by creating a sustainable parent community with strong social capital and effectively communicating with parents in inclusive, culturally relevant ways that build trust. Her experiences highlight the multiple roles Black women play in transforming their communities to address issues of equitable and just access to quality informal learning opportunities as an act of resistance to historical inequity. Moreover, by highlighting her success in building a community of support for Black and Latina girls in STEAM, we argue that it is important for learning initiatives to leverage the power of Black women as change agents in their communities through equal partnership, proper compensation, and recognition of their contributions to STEM enrollment, persistence, and retention.
KW - Black and Latinx families
KW - Black feminist thought
KW - STEAM
KW - STEM
KW - girls
KW - parent support roles
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U2 - 10.1109/RESPECT51740.2021.9620550
DO - 10.1109/RESPECT51740.2021.9620550
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85121145424
T3 - 2021 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, RESPECT 2021 - Conference Proceedings
BT - 2021 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology, RESPECT 2021 - Conference Proceedings
A2 - Gardner-McCune, Christina
A2 - Grady, Siobahn Day
A2 - Jimenez, Yerika
A2 - Ryoo, Jean J.
A2 - Santo, Rafi
A2 - Payton, Jamie
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 23 May 2021 through 27 May 2021
ER -