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Centering Asian American women's experiences in (re)conceptualizing leadership in higher education through counter-storytelling

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dc.contributor.authorNakasone Wenzler, Kerry, author
dc.contributor.authorPoon, OiYan, advisor
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Lumina, committee member
dc.contributor.authorGraglia, Pamela, committee member
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz, Susana, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-30T10:22:38Z
dc.date.available2022-05-30T10:22:38Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study is to understand how Asian American Women (re)conceptualize leadership given their racialized and gendered experiences with oppression within higher education. Asian American Women leaders' stories are not represented in the traditional leadership theories dominated by white male heteronormative perspective that creates a culturally biased and homogenous conceptualization of leadership. Seven Asian American Women research collaborators joined me in co-constructing how we collectively (re)conceptualized leadership and centered our multiple identities to interrogate the systems of oppression within higher education that have impacted our leadership experiences at the intersections of race and gender. This critical constructivist study is rooted in Asian American Feminist ways of knowing, using a qualitative critical race methodology called counter-storytelling to highlight the power of experiential knowledge that exists within Asian American Women's experiences. The (re)conceptualized leadership themes are interconnected, introspective, culturally informed, and reflect a duty of care for our communities that centers the humanity in others and ourselves, ongoing engagement in critical self-reflection as part of our own healing and leadership praxis, an understanding of how to leverage our positionality through intersectional strategic leadership, and a commitment toward shared liberation through collective empowerment. The significance of this study is contributing an intersectional (re)conceptualization of Asian American Women leadership, co-constructed through meaning-making of counter-stories shared by Asian American Women leaders in higher education. Additionally, I offer a conceptualization of Asian American Women's ways of knowing and engaging with the world to contribute to future research toward an Asian American Feminist epistemology co-constructed with other Asian American Women leaders and scholars.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierNakasoneWenzler_colostate_0053A_17086.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/235301
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectcounter-storytelling
dc.subjectwomen of color leaders
dc.subjecthigher education leadership
dc.subjectAsian American women
dc.titleCentering Asian American women's experiences in (re)conceptualizing leadership in higher education through counter-storytelling
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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