D.I.V.A. Diaries

Contents: Cherrel Miller Dyce/Toni Milton Williams/Torry Reynold: Inception of the Distinguished, Intellectual, Virtuous, Academic Sistas (DIVAS) Collective – Toni Milton Williams/Cherrel Miller Dyce: Meditations and Deliberations on DIVAS – Cherrel Miller Dyce: Standing in the Gap as the Academic Intercessor – Cynthia Brooks Wooten: Putting on the Garment of Theory: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t – Cynthia Thrasher Shamberger: Collaboration and Encouragement as Mile Markers: Running for the Prize of PhD – Cheryll Sibley-Albold: Black Wonder Woman: Demystifying the «Supernatural» Powers of the Black Female Doctoral Student – Toni Milton Williams: Invisible Woman: A DIVA Seizing Visibility – Dawn Nicole Hicks Tafari: Tales from a Hip-Hop DIVA: One Girl’s Journey from the Bronx to the PhD – Cherrel Miller Dyce/Toni Milton Williams: Transition - «Changing the Game»: The Role of Qualitative Narratives in Research and Knowledge Construction – Temeka L. Carter: The Liberatory Educator: Transforming Lives, One Student at a Time – Marrissa R. Dick: An African American Woman’s Continued Fight for a Pedagogical Education Inside of the Classroom – LaWanda M. Wallace: Present, but Not Present: The Personal and Educational Journey of a Doctoral Student Experiencing Deployment and Divorce – Kim Doggett Pemberton: Through the Fire: Marked, but Not Burned - A Doctoral Journey Transformed by Life’s Obstructions.