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Equity Speaks: Culturally Sustaining Stories

Aug 26, 2024

Advancing Racialized Equity at Community Colleges: Lessons from California - July 30

In 1996, Proposition 209 in California banned the use of race in admissions across the state higher education system. This July 30, 2024, virtual OCCRL Equity Academy focused on understanding lessons from the West Coast to address the...


Dec 3, 2021

In this episode, Pamela Luster talks about her life and journey toward equity and excellence and how it shaped her.

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Nov 2, 2021

Frank Harris IIIIn this episode, scholar Frank Harris III talks about his early childhood experiences in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. He also relates the positive influence of his maternal grandmother, his schooling in California after moving to that state, and how he broke into the academy.

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Nov 1, 2019

For the third episode of the Equity Speaks podcast series, we explore the culturally responsive wraparound student-support services that administrators use to support racially minoritized student populations on community college campuses. The panelists are Gabrielle Thompson, director of access and opportunity...