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July 31, 2015 Mentoring

How Mentors Can Help Youth of Color Not Get Caught Up as “POWs” in PWIs

However, in the wake of a continuing struggle to gain equity; i.e. Black Lives Matter and Black Spring, we must

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July 23, 2015 Mentoring

5 Things Every Mentor Needs to Know About Working with Black Youth

Outside of mentoring programs providing basic training to each of their volunteers, how can we be sure that mentors outside

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July 20, 2015 Mentoring

Why the #IfIDieInPoliceCustody Hashtag is Wake-Up Call For Mentoring: Three ways Mentoring can Become More Critical Now

My most recent piece published in The Chronicle of Evidence Based Mentoring. Please check it out! As youth mentoring continues

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June 20, 2015 Mentoring

Critical Mentoring: A Definition and Agenda

In 2005, Sanchez and Colon-Torres explained that: “Despite evidence that race and ethnicity plays an important role in mentoring relationships,

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June 3, 2015 Mentoring

Join us for this #TwitterChat June 4th at 4 P.M. P.S.T. using @mentoringaction

May 16, 2015 Mentoring

Mentoring for College Access: Are Youth of Color POW’s in PWI’s? (Prisoners of War in Predominately White Institutions)

I’ve been running a college access centered mentoring program since 2007. Which means that since that time I have actively

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April 27, 2015 Mentoring

JOIN US FOR THIS #TWITTERCHAT

Those of us who come face to face with Black youth in our work have to ask ourselves some very

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April 21, 2015 Mentoring

“I Only Want To Fight Over Real Stuff!”

Originally posted on Black&Smart:
I feel like this has been a year filled with fights. The shooting of Michael Brown,…

April 13, 2015 Mentoring

My Awesome Empire Feature

The Youth Mentoring Action Network had the opportunity to be featured on My Awesome Empire this past Saturday. We discussed

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April 8, 2015 Education / Mentoring / Youth

What Mentors Say When Another Unarmed Black Man is Killed by the Police

I had just finished a phone discussion with a trainer who was looking to provide a training for mentors serving

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Torie Weiston, Ph.D. Mentoring and Education Scholar

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