Identity-Conscious Supervision

https://youtu.be/8QKuGl4lWSQ Episode Description Dr. Susana Muñoz talks with authors of Identity-Conscious Supervision with Robert Brown, Dr. Craig Elliott, and Dr. Shruti Desai. Guests explore topics around power, identity, and courageous leadership. Episode Transcript Susana Muñoz:Hello and welcome to Student Affairs Now, I'm your host Susana Muñoz. Today. We're talking about a new and exciting book titled identity conscious supervision. I am thrilled that today we are joined by the three author authors, scholar practitioners, and generally just fun people to hang out with. Student Affairs Now is the premier podcast and learning community for thousands of us who work in alongside or adjacent to the field of higher education and student affairs. We hope that you'll find these conversations, make a contribution to the field and are restorative to the profession. We release new episodes every week on Wednesdays. Find us at studentaffairsnow.com or on Twitter @stuaffairsnow. As I mentioned, I'm Susana Muñoz. I'm an associate professor and program chair in the higher education leadership program at Colorado state university in Fort Collins. My pronouns are she her hers. I'm hosting this conversation today from Fort Collins, Colorado with respect. I want to acknowledge that I am on the lands of the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho Cheyenne and Ute nations and peoples. Now let's get into our conversation. We're here to discuss a new book, titled identity, conscious supervision in student affairs, building relationships and transforming systems with three of the authors, please introduce yourselves and their relationship that you have to the topic. Robert Brown:Well, thank you so much for having us. My name is Rob Brown. My gender pronouns are he him and his and I serve as a director of social justice education at Northwestern university and Evanston, Illinois. And I'm calling in today from Chicago. And in addition to that, I'm also a third year doctoral student in the higher ed leadership program at Colorado State University. And so what kind of got me engaged in kind of doing this book is really, my lens is both like a scholar and a practitioner. So as a practitioner I have been supervised, I am a supervisor and it is super hard and it's a, just a very difficult thing. And I think as a supervisee, I don't know that I always understood that complexity made sense of it. And until I was really in the role of a supervisor, particularly a professional staff. And so it's really through some early conversations with Shruti who was my supervisor at one point in my career that we started talking about some of those complexities and realize that more folks in our field needed to start having some of these conversations, particularly with a clear lens around Robert Brown:Inclusion and equity which is kind of thinking and in alignment with my broader research interests on, in equity and inclusion in higher education. So through, through time, you know, I've been able to partner with Shruti and Craig will introduce themselves in a moment and have really been fortunate to continue to build really strong partnerships and collaborative relationships with them. But more importantly, just really strong friendships. And so I'm excited to join you all today. Thank you. Shruti Desai:Sure. Thanks Rob. And thank you for having us today to talk about this and just, it's always a great opportunity to spend time with Greg and Rob. So I always appreciate that. My name is Shruti Desai, I use she, her pronouns. I serve as chief of staff for the Gephardt Institute for civic and community engagement ...