The Power of Sum: An Accountability Sistah Circle

摘要: Duoethnography offers the narratives of first-generation Black women scholars who created a virtual community as transformative safe space for peer mentorship and scholarship. Framed through womanist epistemological lens, our provide insight about challenges triumphs navigating academy from female African descent. Unique to this chronicle, development an Accountability Sistah Circle in 2012 became organic personal professional growth. Through components model, which can be implemented with others living margins, we uncovered authentic voices, shared resources, expanded social capital, developed ritual that provided safety shield around us ultimately helped enhance academic fortitude.