All Aboard the Mentorship: A Discussion with Shantel Martinez and Bryant Taylor

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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