
All Aboard the Mentorship: A Discussion with Shantel Martinez and Bryant Taylor
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.
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- 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.
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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 [email protected].
- 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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- Jessica Calarco, A Field Guide ro Grad School (affiliate link)
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- 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 [email protected].
- 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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- 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 [email protected].
- 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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