Cross Sector Collaboration Champions: How Collective Impact Network Directors Lead for Educational Equity
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: supported me and gave me the space to pursue my full time career, earn my PhD, and become a parent all at the same time.You have reminded me and many others that parents, particularly mothers, can do it all given the right supports.I so look forward to celebrating this accomplishment together as a family and to making up for the many days and nights I spent away collecting data, analyzing, and writing this dissertation.I also want to deeply thank my sister, who is like my first born and who took such good care of my first born, acting as the parent, partner, sister, meal-maker, and caregiver that we all really needed as we worked toward creating the village we want to be for future generations.I'm so glad we are graduating together and that we'll continue to learn and grow together in our professions.I also have a large and loving family-those by blood and those by choice-that helped to keep me sane, helped me laugh and cry as needed, and helped ease the pain of loss and enjoy the pleasures of life over the 10 years I spent pursuing my graduate degrees.While Ed Taylor is my dissertation chair, he has played an even more significant role in my life for nearly 13 years as a mentor.Thank you, Ed, for saying, "yes…and" too many times to count.Thank you for acknowledging my emotions and my experiences as a practitioner, as a student, as a researcher, and as a human being.Thank you for your gentle but persistent guidance away from the strict binaries and status quos, and toward inclusiveness and transcendence.Thank you also to my first advisor, Meredith Honig
Authors: Myers Twitchell, Jenee Anita
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2785308978