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Navigating the politics of academia is not easy for assistant professors and particularly for those from historically marginalized and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in schools that do not have diversity in their faculty (National Academy of Medicine, The future of nursing 2020-2030: charting a path to achieve health equity. The National Academies Press, Washington, 2021). In 2010, Kenya Beard assumed a faculty position as an Assistant Professor at the Hunter College-Bellevue School of Nursing, where Diana Mason held the inaugural Rudin Professor of Nursing Endowed Chair. This chapter describes their experience and journey from mentor–mentee to peer mentors. These include opening doors to new experiences for growth and development, including national fellowships; coaching and role modeling on accessing and interacting with people in positions of power; affirming the mentee’s sense of belonging; and shifting from a mentor–mentee relationship to peer mentoring.
We are striving to forge a union with purpose, to compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man. And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.
—Amanda Gorman (2021)
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Beard, K., Mason, D.J. (2023). Breakfasts, Open Doors, and Belonging: Moving Through and Beyond Racism. In: Rollins Gantz, N., Hafsteinsdóttir, T.B. (eds) Mentoring in Nursing through Narrative Stories Across the World . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25204-4_129
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