Kelly K. Hope is an educator, advocate, and higher education professional. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in English education from Southern Connecticut State University and an Ed.D. in organizational leadership from Northeastern University. Hope serves as Adjunct Professor and Director of Student Life and Student Conduct at Housatonic Community College. In 2013, she received the Phi Delta Kappa Golden Apple Award for excellence in education.

“Black Women Speaking From Within: Essays and Experiences in Higher Education extends Black women’s contemporary resurgence in the political mainstream into the academy. This groundswell of voices advocating for visibility, representation, and power validates the unsung experiences of generations of Black female academicians who have challenged the lack of inclusiveness, and it deftly demystifies higher education for the next generation of professional women in the academy.”—Susan Marcia Monroe, Associate Professor of English and First Year Studies, Housatonic Community College

• Preface – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Kimberly D. Johnson: Black Women Staff in the Academy: Challenges, Sisterhood, and Strategies for Success – Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey: My Sister, Myself: Sociocultural Factors That Affect the Advancement of African-American Women Into Senior-Level Positions – Stephanie L. Krah: Made It to the Adult Table: Being a Black Woman Millennial Leader in Higher Education – Kelly K. Hope: The Invisible Woman: How Institutional Cultures Perpetuate the Marginalization of Black Women – LaToya Rene Robertson: The Contradictions in Higher Education – Courtney Allen: Calling All the Sisters: Sister Circles as a Form of Institutional Responsibility to Black Womyn Collegians – Lytasha Marie Blackwell: Build, Bond, or Break: Sisterhood in the Midst of Individual Transformations – Robin Phelps-Ward/Erin K. Phelps: Sisterly Personal Narratives From Two Black Sisters in the Academy – Kelly K. Hope: Who in the Hell Left the Gate Open – Appendix I: Sample Proposal – Appendix II: Sample Cover Letter – Appendix III: Sample Supervisory Evaluation Form – Contributors.

Kelly K. Hope is an educator, advocate, and higher education professional. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in English education from Southern Connecticut State University and an Ed.D. in organizational leadership from Northeastern University. Hope serves as Adjunct Professor and Director of Student Life and Student Conduct at Housatonic Community College. In 2013, she received the Phi Delta Kappa Golden Apple Award for excellence in education.

“Black Women Speaking From Within: Essays and Experiences in Higher Education extends Black women’s contemporary resurgence in the political mainstream into the academy. This groundswell of voices advocating for visibility, representation, and power validates the unsung experiences of generations of Black female academicians who have challenged the lack of inclusiveness, and it deftly demystifies higher education for the next generation of professional women in the academy.”—Susan Marcia Monroe, Associate Professor of English and First Year Studies, Housatonic Community College

• Preface – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Kimberly D. Johnson: Black Women Staff in the Academy: Challenges, Sisterhood, and Strategies for Success – Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey: My Sister, Myself: Sociocultural Factors That Affect the Advancement of African-American Women Into Senior-Level Positions – Stephanie L. Krah: Made It to the Adult Table: Being a Black Woman Millennial Leader in Higher Education – Kelly K. Hope: The Invisible Woman: How Institutional Cultures Perpetuate the Marginalization of Black Women – LaToya Rene Robertson: The Contradictions in Higher Education – Courtney Allen: Calling All the Sisters: Sister Circles as a Form of Institutional Responsibility to Black Womyn Collegians – Lytasha Marie Blackwell: Build, Bond, or Break: Sisterhood in the Midst of Individual Transformations – Robin Phelps-Ward/Erin K. Phelps: Sisterly Personal Narratives From Two Black Sisters in the Academy – Kelly K. Hope: Who in the Hell Left the Gate Open – Appendix I: Sample Proposal – Appendix II: Sample Cover Letter – Appendix III: Sample Supervisory Evaluation Form – Contributors.

Kelly K. Hope is an educator, advocate, and higher education professional. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in English education from Southern Connecticut State University and an Ed.D. in organizational leadership from Northeastern University. Hope serves as Adjunct Professor and Director of Student Life and Student Conduct at Housatonic Community College. In 2013, she received the Phi Delta Kappa Golden Apple Award for excellence in education.

“Black Women Speaking From Within: Essays and Experiences in Higher Education extends Black women’s contemporary resurgence in the political mainstream into the academy. This groundswell of voices advocating for visibility, representation, and power validates the unsung experiences of generations of Black female academicians who have challenged the lack of inclusiveness, and it deftly demystifies higher education for the next generation of professional women in the academy.”—Susan Marcia Monroe, Associate Professor of English and First Year Studies, Housatonic Community College

• Preface – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Kimberly D. Johnson: Black Women Staff in the Academy: Challenges, Sisterhood, and Strategies for Success – Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey: My Sister, Myself: Sociocultural Factors That Affect the Advancement of African-American Women Into Senior-Level Positions – Stephanie L. Krah: Made It to the Adult Table: Being a Black Woman Millennial Leader in Higher Education – Kelly K. Hope: The Invisible Woman: How Institutional Cultures Perpetuate the Marginalization of Black Women – LaToya Rene Robertson: The Contradictions in Higher Education – Courtney Allen: Calling All the Sisters: Sister Circles as a Form of Institutional Responsibility to Black Womyn Collegians – Lytasha Marie Blackwell: Build, Bond, or Break: Sisterhood in the Midst of Individual Transformations – Robin Phelps-Ward/Erin K. Phelps: Sisterly Personal Narratives From Two Black Sisters in the Academy – Kelly K. Hope: Who in the Hell Left the Gate Open – Appendix I: Sample Proposal – Appendix II: Sample Cover Letter – Appendix III: Sample Supervisory Evaluation Form – Contributors.