Your Shadow Advisor
Darrel Wanzer-Serrano
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A show about navigating higher education’s hidden curriculum as a first-generation scholar of color.
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08/24/22 • 29 min
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In this first full episode of the show, your host explores why he's doing the show, how and why the "hidden curriculum" is useful and not, and how attentiveness to structural inequality is important -- plus some advice on making it through the start of the academic year.
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Links and things:
- The piece on first-gen students and hidden curriculum from Diverse is here: https://www.diverseeducation.com/opinion/article/15295583/admitting-firstgeneration-and-lowincome-students-is-not-enough
- Jessica Calarco, A Field Guide ro Grad School (affiliate link)
- Victoria Reyes, Academic Outsider (affiliate link)
- Zachary Shore, Grad School Essentials (affiliate link)
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered.
- If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
- I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.
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Welcome to Your Shadow Advisor
Your Shadow Advisor
06/29/22 • 1 min
This is a brief introduction to this new podcast, hosted by Prof. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, about navigating higher education from a first-generation, person of color point of view.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can also become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- Like what you’re hearing, then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- Have a question that you want answered, submit it here: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
- I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which also makes a handy app that streamlines the process of making the chapter markers in this podcast.

Previewing Your Host
Your Shadow Advisor
07/13/22 • 2 min
In this short teaser, I talk a bit more about me (your host) and why I'm might have a unique perspective on our topic.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- Have a question that you want answered, submit it here: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
- I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

Why the Name?
Your Shadow Advisor
07/20/22 • 2 min
In this short teaser, I talk a bit about why I'm calling this podcast "Your Shadow Advisor."
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- My first book is The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation (affiliate link)
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- Have a question that you want answered, submit it here: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
- I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

Help Me ... Help You
Your Shadow Advisor
07/27/22 • 2 min
A brief episode in which your host begs for topic ideas and questions.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
- Look at the next section of these show notes for the Twitter link, questions link, etc.
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

The Economics of the Professoriate
Your Shadow Advisor
08/03/22 • 2 min
A brief episode in which your host talks about some recent reporting and research on the economics of who becomes a professor and why.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- The Washington Post story referenced in the article is called "People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows"
- The Boar and Lashkari working paper is here
- The other study that prompts the Washington Post story is here (link to PDF of the study)
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered.
- If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
- I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

Biden's PSLF Waiver (a Quick Primer and Story)
Your Shadow Advisor
08/10/22 • 3 min
A brief episode in which your host talks about the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and the elimination of student debt.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- Read more about the PSLF here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Loan_Forgiveness
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
- I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

The Final Countdown
Your Shadow Advisor
08/17/22 • 2 min
A brief episode in which your host talks about what comes next in this final countdown to Episode 1.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
- I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

08/31/22 • 53 min
Your host interviews Dr. Shantel Martinez and Bryant Taylor about mentorship dos and don'ts, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- Shantel Martinez is the Director of First-Generation Programs and Enrichment for the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has a PhD in Communications and Media with an emphasis on Latinx Communication and Gender Studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As a practitioner-scholar, she centers storytelling and narrative practices to examine cycles of intergenerational trauma/survival in both familial and educational spaces. She utilizes this research to inform her approach to build mentorship pipelines, form community, and cultivate narratives of survival. She can be found on LinkedIn, here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantel-martinez-phd-358b8967/
- Bryant Taylor is from the Bay Area, California, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon in their inaugural Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies program. His research interests include Black queer home-making, oral histories, archives, and queer video game spaces.
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- I'm going to upload weekly teasers, trailers, and reminders in the lead-up to episode 1 on August 24th. So stay tuned and reach out if you want a question answered.
- If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
- I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.

Academic Outsider: A Discussion with Victoria Reyes
Your Shadow Advisor
09/07/22 • 63 min
Your host interviews Dr. Victoria Reyes about her book, Academic Outsider, in addition to other topics related to navigating higher education.
★ Thanks to our sponsors ★
You can become a supporter of the show and get your name (or your organization's name) here in the show notes. Sign up for a membership here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws
Links and things:
- Victoria Reyes is an Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California Riverside. She is a sociologist and gender scholar who studies culture, borders, and empires. Her research and teaching interests include culture, global and transnational sociology, economic sociology, urbanism, historical/comparative sociology, qualitative methods, race/ethnicity, gender, and law and society. Dr. Reyes is author of the multi-award winning book Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines (published in 2019 by Stanford University Press) and Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope, which was just published in July 2022 through Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press.
- You may be able to get a 20% discount on the book by using code OUTSIDER20 on the publisher's website.
- Like what you’re hearing? Then Buy Me a Coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/doctordws. Even better, become a member and unlock additional features like regular “ask me anything” events, bonus content, and more.
- If you think you'd like to be a guest on the show, email me at darrel@yourshadowadvisor.com.
- Transcripts are always on the website page for the episode and included as subtitles on the YouTube video.
You can reply to this podcast here:
- Twitter: @YourShadowAdv
- Facebook: @YourShadowAdvisor
- Host on Twitter: @DoctorDWS
- Questions: https://www.yourshadowadvisor.com/ask-a-question
Credits
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/infraction/do-it
- My hosting is provided by Transistor.fm, which I really love. (Note: affiliate link.)
- Interviews are conducted via Riverside.fm (Note: affiliate link)
- I use otter.ai to generate transcripts/captions for this show. (Note: affiliate link.)
- My podcasting app of choice is Overcast.fm, which I can't recommend strongly enough.
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