Introduction : What the fuck? Now what? : the social and psychological dilemmas of multi-dimensional being as a woman of color in the academy / Theodorea Regina Berry -- The journey of an African American female chemist-scholar / Amanda C. Bryant-Friedrich -- My skin is brown and I do not wear a tie : exploring my Selves as a Southern, Black, educated, Christian woman / Menthia P. Clark -- Bridging identities : making sense of who we are becoming to be / Aki Murata -- Watching, my other education : vicarious learning about gender and race in the professorate / M. Francyne Huckaby -- Balancing the margin is my center : a Navajo woman's navigations through the academy and her community / Tiffany S. Lee -- Transitions : finding my voice / Tinaya Webb -- In-between China and North America / Ming Fang He -- Both oppressor and oppressed : an Asian-Indian woman's experience within the academy / Kiran Katira -- Mentoring and its role in scholarly development / Beatrice Bridglall -- Being all things to all people : expectations of and demands on women of color in the legal academy / Danielle Conway-Jones -- The "intercultural space" where worlds collide / Amanda Kim -- Sides of the tenure and promotion process : can I be a parental figure, scholar, and spouse? / Cassandra Sligh DeWalt -- Perspectives on negotiating identity and profession at a historically Black college or university / Cassandra Sligh DeWalt, Cheryl Thompkins Horton -- Choosing my best thing : Black motherhood and academia / KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson -- Seen, not heard : a conversation on what it means to be Black and female in the academy / LaVada Taylor Brandon -- In this place where I don't quite belong : claiming the ontoepistemological in-between / Denise Taliaferro Baszile -- Una lucha de fronteras (a struggle of borders) : women of color in the academy / Maria V. Balderrama Mary T. Texeira Elsa Valdez -- Critical race feminist foremothering : multiplicities in the post 9-11 world / Adrien Katherine Wing -- A Nuyorican in the academy : lessons learned / Sonia Nieto.